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1 Cash - Rashidin Khan Kucha, with date
| Issuer | Turkestan Khanate |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Value | 1 Cash |
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| Reverse lettering | ١٢٨١ زرب دار السلطانات كوجا (Translation: 1281 (for year 1864) Zarb dar al-Sultanat Kuqa (Struck at the Sultanate of Kucha)) |
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| Mintage | 1281 (1865) ٢ - Hartill#22.1274a: ١٢٨١; small writing - 1281 (1865) ٢ - Hartill#22.1274b: ١٢٨١; large writing - |
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Kucha was one of the oasis city-states of the Tarim Basin that fell under the control of Yaqub Beg during his rapid conquest of Kashgaria in the 1860s. Rashidin Khan held Kucha briefly as a semi-autonomous figure before Yaqub Beg's consolidation of the region under his Athalik Ghazi government displaced local authority. The cash coinage struck here reflects that transitional moment — local form, square-holed and cast in the Chinese tradition the region had used for generations, but issued under a Muslim khanate asserting independence from both Qing authority and the encroaching Russian sphere.