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1 Yuan - Guangxu Pattern
| Issuer | Hunan Province Mint |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1897-1949) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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Hunan Province was among the last of the major Chinese provincial mints to pursue a silver dollar program, and this 1897 pattern reflects the political friction behind that delay. Provincial officials had long resisted Beijing's intermittent attempts to centralize coinage authority, and experimental strikes like this one were partly a way of demonstrating technical capability — and asserting local prerogative — before any national standard could be imposed. The Hunan mint never entered full dollar production; this pattern is effectively the end of the story, not a beginning.