1 Tael - Guangxu Pattern, Hu Poo

The Hu Bu (Board of Revenue) mint in Beijing was established in 1905 as part of the Qing government's attempt to centralize coinage away from the provincial mints that had operated semi-autonomously for decades. This 1906 tael pattern belongs to that reform effort — specifically the push to unify weights and denominations across the empire under a single imperial authority. The patterns were never adopted for circulation; provincial resistance and disagreement over the tael-versus-dollar standard stalled the program entirely.

Kann#934 is among the rarer Hu Bu tael patterns, struck in very limited numbers as presentation or approval pieces.