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1 Yuan - Guangxu Eight characters
| Issuer | Anhwei Province Mint |
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| Year | 1897-1898 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1897-1949) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears four large Chinese characters arranged vertically in two columns, flanked by Manchu script characters at centre, all within a circular border of smaller Chinese characters reading the reign title, province of issue, and denomination. The legend reads in Chinese and Manchu, identifying the coin as minted in Anhwei Province during the Guangxu reign, with the denomination expressed as seven mace and two candareens. The overall layout follows the traditional Chinese imperial coinage format, with the reign title and mint name distributed around the central inscription. The border is defined by an inner dotted ring and an outer beaded rim. |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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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.