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1 Yuan / 1 Dollar Founding of the Republic: Li Yuanhong, type 2
| Issuer | Republic of China |
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| Year | 1912 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Edge | Reeded |
| Mint | Tientsin Mint |
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Li Yuanhong was military governor of Hubei when revolutionary soldiers essentially forced him at gunpoint to lead the Wuchang Uprising of October 1911 — he reportedly hid under his bed when the mutiny broke out. His uneasy prominence in the early Republic made him a logical but politically loaded choice for commemorative coinage. The "type 2" distinction separates this issue from the first Li Yuanhong dollar by the absence of the queue, the Qing-era pigtail, which was removed as a deliberate republican statement.
These dollars were struck amid the chaotic patchwork of provincial mints operating with varying accountability in 1912, complicating attribution of specific striking facilities.