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| Issuer | Qing Dynasty Imperial Mint, Aksu |
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| Year | 1878-1883 |
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| Currency | Cash (1759-1909) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
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| Reverse script | Mongolian / Manchu, Old Uyghur |
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Following Yakub Beg's defeat and China's reconquest of Xinjiang in 1877, the Qing administration scrambled to reassert economic control over a region that had been effectively severed from the imperial monetary system for over a decade. The Aksu mint resumed operations producing cash coins in Qianlong's name — a posthumous attribution that had been standard practice for Xinjiang mints since the 18th century, conferring legitimacy through a long-dead emperor's reign title rather than the reigning Guangxu period.
The "one-stroke A" designation refers to a specific calligraphic variant in the Manchu reverse inscription, used to distinguish die families within Aksu's output during this transitional period. The light type reflects reduced copper content relative to earlier Xinjiang issues.