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Auction: CSS86B - The Prestigious Academic Reference Collection Of The Late Dr Werner Burger - Part 2
Lot: 1139

China: Southern Ming, Yong Li Tong Bao, 38x 1 cash coins, many different mintmarks on reverse e.g. 'Hu', 'Gong', 'Ming', 'Guo', 'Ding', 'Yue' etc, 5 coins graded by Zhong Qian as per images, the rest fine to extremely fine. Zhu You Lang (1623-1662), Prince of Gui (modern day Hengyang, Hubei Province) self proclaimed as Regent of Ming after the death of the Emperor Long Wu. However, Zhu Yu Yue, the younger brother of the Long Wu proclaimed himself as Emperor Shao Wu in Guangzhou. Shortly after this, the Prince of Gui also proclaimed himself to be Emperor Yong Li. The two sides went to war over who was the true heir to the Ming Empire and was won by Shao Wu. Unfortuantely Guangzhou fell to the Qing army not long after this and the Shao Wu Emperor was killed, leaving Yong Li as the sole Emperor of what is now called Southern Ming. Yong Li and other Ming loyalists held out in Southern China until 1660 when the Qing Army attacked Yunnan Province. The emperor escaped to Burma only to be captured and returned to Wu San Gui by a local chieftain. He was personally executed by Wu, who strangled him and his household with a bow string; the fourth and last of the Southern Ming Emperors. A nice lot with many varities. Dr. Werner Burger Collection. (38). [259-264, 266-274]


南明永曆通寶小平一組38枚，背有不同鑄幣廠名，如「戶」、「工」、「國」、「定」、「粵」等，5枚經中乾評級，詳見圖示，其餘F至EF品相， 南明隆武帝死後，朱友郎(即桂親王)自封為明朝攝政王。 然而，隆武之弟朱玉樾在廣州稱帝為紹武，此後不久，桂親王也自立為永曆帝。雙方為爭奪明朝真正的繼承人之位開戰，最後邵武勝出。不幸地，廣州不久後被清軍攻陷，紹武帝被殺，永曆成為南明唯一的皇帝。永曆與其他明朝餘民堅守中國南方，直到 1660 年清軍進攻雲南省，永曆逃到緬甸，被當地首領俘虜並呈交給吳三桂，後被吳氏親手以弓弦處死他與家人。永曆是南明的第四位，亦是最後一位皇帝。一組多元之古錢，值得研究

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