1 Yuan - Guangxu

Yunnan's silver dollar production was driven largely by the province's proximity to the Burma Road trade network and its long history of operating semi-autonomous minting facilities. The Yunnan mint had been striking machine-made coinage since the 1890s, but provincial authorities jealously guarded output quotas against Beijing's periodic attempts to centralize currency production under the Da Qing Bank reforms of 1905–1908. This piece dates to the final year those tensions were unresolved.

Yunnan dollars circulated heavily into French Indochina and upper Burma, where they competed directly with the Mexican peso and the French piastre.