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1 Mace - Guangxu Pattern, 'SUNGAREI', brass
| Issuer | Sinkiang Province |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Reverse lettering | SUNGAREI 1 MACE |
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| Mintage | ND (1897) - Seemingly unique |
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The "SUNGAREI" designation on Sinkiang Pattern issues of this period refers to Dzungaria — the northern division of Xinjiang — reflecting the administrative geography the Chinese imperial government used when engaging with foreign trade interests. These patterns were never authorized for circulation; they were struck as proposals, almost certainly in response to pressure to modernize coinage in the northwestern provinces following the suppression of the Dungan Revolt and subsequent Qing reassertion of control over the region in the 1870s and 1880s.
Brass was the test material of choice for pattern strikes precisely because it was cheap and easily worked — a surviving brass pattern from 1897 Sinkiang tells you more about mint bureaucracy than monetary policy.