鋳 — casting, mint

この種銭の善し悪しが私鋳銭の品質を大きく左右する。

The quality of shichusen produced greatly depends on the quality of this tanesen.

表面は、製作の年月、鋳造に関する決まり文句（慣用的な吉祥句）、直接製作に当たった工人の名を記している。

The front side has a date of creation, a set phrase (a conventional auspicious phrase) as to casting, and a name of the artisan who made the sword immediately.

家斉の治世は、はじめ質素倹約の政策が引き継がれたが、貨幣悪鋳による出目の収益で幕府財政が一旦潤うと、大奥での華美な生活に流れ、幕政は放漫経営に陥った。

At the beginning of Ienari's government, the policy of simple and frugal life was succeeded, but when the finance of the shogunate government recovered temporarily by minting new currency with low content of gold and silver, which brought profit margin to the government, administration fell into a lax management at an extravagant expense of the harem (ooku).ａ）