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1 Yuan - Guangxu Eight characters
| Issuer | Anhwei Province Mint |
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| Year | 1897-1898 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Chinese, Manchu |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed Chinese imperial dragon, depicted in high relief, is shown in profile facing left with its sinuous body coiling across the field, clutching a flaming pearl beneath its claws. The dragon's scales, whiskers, and flame-like appendages are rendered with characteristic late Qing dynasty artistry. Two rosette ornaments appear in the left and right fields flanking the dragon. The surrounding Latin legend, separated from the central device by an inner dotted ring and outer beaded border, reads 'AN-HWEI PROVINCE' along the upper arc and '7 MACE AND 2 CANDAREENS' along the lower arc, indicating the issuing province and silver weight standard. |
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The Anhwei provincial mint was established in the mid-1890s specifically to compete with the flood of Guangdong machine-struck dollars that were displacing older sycee silver across central China. The "eight characters" designation distinguishes this issue from later Anhwei dollars by the abbreviated Manchu and Chinese inscription on the reverse — a detail that generated enough internal Qing bureaucratic dispute that the design was revised multiple times within a single two-year run, producing the distinct varieties catalogued under Y#45.
Anhwei's mint operation was notoriously short-lived and mechanically troubled. Output was inconsistent, and the province never achieved the volume that Guangdong or Hubei managed.