1 Yuan - Guangxu 7 Mace and 2 Candareens

Kwangtung's 1889 dollar was among the first machine-struck provincial silver coins produced in China, minted on equipment imported from the Birmingham Mint. The decision to mechanize came partly from Viceroy Zhang Zhidong, who had championed the Guangdong mint's establishment as a modernizing project — a direct response to the flood of foreign trade dollars, particularly the Mexican peso, that dominated southern Chinese commerce and drained the region of specie control.

The Y#198.1 designation distinguishes this early issue from subsequent varieties. Dies and collar specifications shifted across the series' production run through the 1890s.