1 Cash - Guangxu Tongbao, Guwang / Guang, unorthodox type, struck

The Guangxu Tongbao series encompasses an enormous range of provincial and sub-provincial issues, many authorized only loosely — or not at all — by the Board of Revenue in Beijing. This "Guwang/Guang" piece falls into the category of unorthodox types that numismatists have long struggled to assign to a specific mint with confidence. Hartill's cataloguing of these variants acknowledges the ambiguity directly. The late 1880s saw renewed attempts to rationalize Qing cash coinage ahead of the shift toward machine-struck issues, which effectively rendered hand-cast provincial types obsolete within a decade.