1 Yuan - Guangxu

Kirin Province operated one of the more idiosyncratic mints in the late Qing system, producing dollar-sized silver largely to compete with the Mexican peso and foreign trade coins flooding Manchuria's economy. The provincial government's decision to strike its own coinage reflected genuine administrative distance from Beijing rather than mere local pride — Kirin's trade networks ran north toward Russia and east toward Korea as much as they ran south toward the imperial capital.

Y#183 is known across multiple die varieties distinguishable by the arrangement of Manchu script characters, a detail that has driven sustained specialist attention to this type.