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1 Jiao - Guangxu
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1907 |
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| Value | 1 Jiao (0.1) |
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| Obverse description | At centre, four large Chinese ideograms arranged in a vertical pair of columns reading right to left and top to bottom, flanked by two floral ornaments and two six-pointed stars. Four Manchu script words are inscribed above the central ideograms as a translational equivalent. A further four Chinese ideograms are distributed around the periphery completing the denominational and reign-year inscription. The overall design is set within a plain circular field without a raised border legend. |
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| Reverse lettering | 造年緒光 TAI-CHING-TI-KUO SILVER COIN. (Translation: Made in the reign of Guangxu (Emperor) Silver coin of the Great Qing Empire) |
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The 1 Jiao silver issues of the Guangxu period were produced at the Tianjin Central Mint, established in 1906 as part of the Qing government's broader effort to rationalize a chaotic national coinage system that had previously relied on dozens of provincial mints striking wildly inconsistent denominations. Kann 215 is among the scarcer survivors of that short-lived centralization drive — the dynasty collapsed in 1912 before the project achieved anything close to its intended scope.