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1 Yuan - Guangxu Pei Yang Arsenal, type 1
| Issuer | Pei Yang Arsenal Mint |
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| Year | 1896 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Chinese, Manchu |
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| Mintage | 22 (1896) - 年二十二 / ᠣᡵᡳᠨ ᠵᡠᠸᡝᠴᡳ - 3,000 |
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The Pei Yang Arsenal Mint in Tianjin was established primarily as a weapons factory, only secondarily as a coin producer — a fact that explains the inconsistent die quality observed across this type. This 1896 yuan was struck under the oversight of the Beiyang military administration during Li Hongzhang's tenure, part of a broader effort to standardize provincial silver coinage ahead of a centralized monetary reform that would take another decade to materialize.
Type 1 is distinguished from later Pei Yang issues by specific obverse die characteristics catalogued under Y#65. The arsenal's short minting career makes clean attributions to type consequential for valuation.