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1 Yuan - Guangxu Pattern, brass
| Issuer | Fengtien Province |
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| Year | 1902 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears four large Chinese ideograms arranged vertically in two columns, reading top to bottom and right to left, flanking a pair of Manchu script characters at centre. The entire composition is encircled by an outer legend of additional Chinese ideograms denoting the province, reign title, and denomination. The Manchu inscription occupies the central axis, rendered in a formal calligraphic style consistent with late Qing imperial coinage conventions. |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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Fengtien (modern Liaoning) operated one of the more technically ambitious provincial mints of the late Qing period, acquiring foreign machinery and producing pattern strikes to demonstrate capability to central authorities in Beijing. This brass yuan pattern from 1902 was almost certainly struck as a trial piece during efforts to standardize provincial coinage — a process the Qing court repeatedly attempted and repeatedly failed to enforce uniformly across competing regional mints.
KM#Pn9 status means surviving examples are exceedingly few. Patterns from Fengtien rarely left official channels.