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1 Sar Type 2
| Issuer | Sinkiang Province |
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| Year | 1912 |
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| Value | 1 Sar |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a striking decorative composition of two large crossed diagonal banner-shaped panels, each filled with elaborate scrolling foliate arabesques rendered in fine relief. The four triangular fields created by the crossing banners contain small circular pellets as ornamental accents. The cyclical date characters 壬子 (Renzi, corresponding to 1912) are inscribed vertically in the upper and lower central fields between the crossed banners. The entire design is contained within a beaded inner border and an outer beaded rim. |
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Sinkiang's provincial mints operated in near-total isolation from the central Chinese monetary system, producing silver coinage calibrated to local trade weights rather than national standards. The sar — a regional unit derived from the tael system — persisted in Xinjiang well into the Republican period precisely because commerce there ran on Central Asian conventions, not those of coastal China. The Aksu, Kashgar, and Kucha mints each produced recognizable variants, and distinguishing the Type 2 from Type 1 comes down to specific die differences documented in Kann's reference work.