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1 Sar - Guangxu Ration coinage, with Arabic on reverse, circled dragon
| Issuer | Sinkiang Province |
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| Year | 1905 |
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| Reference(s) | Y#7.1 |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
| Reverse lettering | جج سح ی بر مو شش (Translation: New silver 1 Sar) |
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Sinkiang's ration coinage was never intended for general commerce. Struck to pay and supply Qing military garrisons along the Central Asian frontier, these heavy silver pieces circulated within a closed logistical system rather than a market economy — which explains the Arabic script directed at the predominantly Muslim Uyghur and Turkic population the administration was simultaneously taxing and attempting to pacify. The 1 Sar denomination, derived from the local weight standard rather than the tael system used elsewhere in China, reflects how administratively isolated Sinkiang remained from the Qing monetary mainstream.
Y#7.1 distinguishes this variety by the circled dragon treatment, a detail with real die-identification value given how loosely the Dihua mint operated during this period.