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1 Mithqual - Guangxu Kashgar, with 'Kashgar' to the right
| Issuer | Sinkiang Province |
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| Year | 1905 |
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| Value | 1 Mithqual (0.1) |
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| Mint | Kashgar Mint |
| Mintage | 1323 (1905) - Y# A20.1: ١٣٢٣ (date at lower left) - 1323 (1905) - Y# A20.2: ١٣٢٣ (date at lower right) - |
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Kashgar's mint operated under conditions unlike anything else in the Qing monetary system. Sinkiang — the "New Territory" annexed in 1884 — maintained semi-autonomous coining practices long after standardization swept the eastern provinces, producing silver mithquals calibrated to local Central Asian trade weight conventions rather than the tael system used elsewhere in China. The placement of the mint name in Arabic script reflects the predominantly Uyghur commercial environment these coins were made to circulate in.
By 1905, the Kashgar mint was already in its final years of operation under Qing administration.