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1 Yuan 'Fat Man dollar', with Kan Su
| Issuer | Kansu Province |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Chinese |
| Reverse lettering | 壹 圓 (Translation: 1 Yuan) |
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Kansu Province issued this dollar during the warlord-adjacent chaos of the early Republic, when provincial mints operated with minimal oversight from Beijing. The "Fat Man" nickname derives from the unusually rotund rendering of Yuan Shikai's portrait on this type — a provincial interpretation distinct from the standard Tientsin-struck national issues. Kansu's mint output was chronically inconsistent, and genuine provincial dollars from this period are frequently confused with contemporary counterfeits, which circulated openly and were sometimes official-adjacent productions themselves.