1 Yuan - Guangxu Pattern, brass

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.