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1 Jiao - Guangxu
| Issuer | Fengtien Province |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Value | 1 Jiao = 10 Fen (0.1) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Chinese denomination characters 一角 (1 Jiao) enclosed within a beaded inner circle. Surrounding the inner circle, six groups of Manchu script characters radiate outward toward the beaded rim, arranged symmetrically around the field. The Manchu inscription records the issuing authority (Fengtian Arsenal), the reign year (Guangxu Year 24), and the denomination. The overall design is austere and typographic, with no figurative imagery on this face. |
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| Obverse lettering | ᠪᠠᡩᠠᡵᠠᠩᡤᠠ ᡩᠣᡵᠣ ᡳ᠋ ᠣᡵᡳᠨ ᡩᡠᡳᠴᡳ ᠠᠨᡳᠶᠠ ᠠᠪᡴᠠᡳ ᡳᠮᡳᠶᠠᠩᡤᠠ ᠸᡝᡳᡵᡝᡥᡝ 一 角 (Translation: Made in Year 24 of Guangxu by the Fengtian Arsenal 1 Jiao) |
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Fengtien (Fengtian) Province — modern Liaoning — operated its own mint at Mukden beginning in the mid-1890s, one of several provincial mints established as the Qing central government lost its grip on coinage standardization. This 1 Jiao was struck during the period when Fengtien was also producing machine-struck cash coins, an awkward transitional moment where two monetary systems ran simultaneously out of the same facility. The province sat at the center of competing Russian and Japanese imperial ambitions in Manchuria, and locally minted silver like this circulated in an economy already half-controlled by foreign commercial interests.