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1 Sar - Guangxu Pattern
| Issuer | Sinkiang Province |
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| Year | 1906 |
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| Value | 1 Sar |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears four Chinese ideograms arranged to be read top to bottom, right to left, flanking a small floral rosette at the centre. Additional Chinese inscriptions appear in a horizontal band above and below the central group, denoting the reign title and denomination. Arabic legends are positioned at the left and right sides of the design, completing the bilingual inscription typical of Sinkiang provincial coinage. The entire design is contained within a plain inner circle, with a dentilated border running along the rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Sinkiang's 1906 pattern coinage emerged from Qing efforts to standardize currency across a province that had long operated on a chaotic mix of locally cast cash coins, Russian silver, and Indian rupees flowing across poorly controlled borders. The sar — a transliteration of the tael weight unit adapted for northwestern usage — reflects the administration's attempt to impose a recognizable denomination on a region where barter-adjacent exchange was still common.
Patterns like this one were rarely approved for full production. Sinkiang's mint infrastructure was inconsistent at best, and the province would continue issuing non-standard coinage well into the Republican period.