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1 Tael - Yun-Nan Province
| Issuer | Yunnan Province |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | 雲南省造 光緒元寶 庫平一兩 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Yunnan's tael coinage occupied an awkward administrative space — the province retained traditional tael-weight silver standards long after most of China had nominally adopted dollar-based coinage, largely because cross-border trade with Burma and French Indochina demanded it. Local merchants and opium traders operated on tael weights by convention, and the provincial mint accommodated them.
The Yunnan mint's output was notoriously inconsistent in alloy and striking quality, a direct consequence of the province's semi-autonomous status under successive warlord administrations in the early Republic period.