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1 Jiao
| Issuer | Yunnan Province |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears four large Chinese ideograms arranged vertically, reading top to bottom and right to left, denoting the denomination and coin type. These central characters are framed by an inner and outer ring of additional Chinese inscriptions indicating the issuing authority and date of issue, reading 'Year 12 of the Republic of China, 1 Jiao Nickel Coin, Made in Yunnan Province.' The legends are rendered in a clean, formal script typical of Republican-era Chinese coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Yunnan's provincial coinage of the early Republican period reflects the warlord-era fragmentation that left Beijing's central monetary authority largely theoretical. By 1923, the province was operating under the effective control of Tang Jiyao, whose administration maintained independent fiscal policy — including local coin production — as a practical matter of regional sovereignty. The Yunnan mint had been striking its own subsidiary coinage for years before this issue, with little regard for national standardization efforts.
Y#486 is among the less frequently encountered of the provincial jiao types in problem-free condition, owing to genuine circulation in a region where copper-nickel small change was actually used.