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1 Jiao - Guangxu
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1903-1912) |
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| Obverse lettering | 廠總幣造 光 ᠪᠠᡩᠠᡵᠠᠩᡤᠠ 寶 ᠶᡠᠸᠠᠨ ᠪᠣᠣ 元 ᡩᠣᡵᠣ 緒 釐二分七平庫 (Translation: Factory made currency Guangxu (Emperor) / Yuanbao (Original currency) Guangxu (Emperor) / Yuanbao (Original currency) Worth 7.2 Candareens (weight)) |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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The 1 Jiao issues of 1908 belong to a short-lived attempt by the Qing court to impose currency standardization across provinces that had spent decades minting their own incompatible coinage. The central Board of Revenue mint in Beijing drove this effort, but provincial resistance was substantial and the reform never achieved the uniformity intended. Guangxu died that same year — one day after the Empress Dowager Cixi — under circumstances suspicious enough that modern forensic analysis in 2008 confirmed arsenic poisoning.