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1/2 Miscal / 5 Fen - Guangxu Khotan, Zarb - Khotan
| Issuer | Sinkiang Province |
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| Year | 1878 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Two Chinese ideograms Wu Fen (five fen) appear above and below a central ornamental device, flanked on either side by Arabic legends in the field. The Arabic inscription reads Zarb Khotan (struck at Khotan), identifying the issuing mint. The design is characteristically crude and hand-engraved, consistent with the local coinage tradition of the Khotan mint under the Guangxu era provincial administration. |
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| Reverse lettering | ضو ب 五 分 خوتن (Translation: zarb khotan / Wu Fen Khotan Mint / 5 Fen) |
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Khotan's silver coinage of 1878 sits at the intersection of two collapsing systems. The Qing had just reasserted nominal control over Xinjiang following Yaqub Beg's death in 1877, but the region's mints operated with significant local autonomy — these small silver pieces reflect a monetary infrastructure that was still half-functional, drawing on older Turki traditions of fractional silver while nominally serving the reinstated imperial administration. The Khotan mint (zarb Khotan) was one of several oasis-city facilities pressed back into service as Zuo Zongtang's forces consolidated the reconquest.