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1 Yuan - Guangxu 'Silver cake'
| Issuer | Kweichow Province |
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| Year | 1888 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
| Obverse lettering | 貴川官爐造光緒十四年 (Translation: Kweichow official furnaces / Made in Year 14 of Guangxu) |
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The Kweichow "silver cake" dollars of 1888 occupy a peculiar place in Chinese provincial coinage. Kweichow was among the poorest and most isolated of the Qing provinces, with no modern mint machinery — these pieces were struck by hand using primitive methods, which accounts for their characteristically crude, chunky fabric. Kann catalogued only a handful of confirmed examples, and the type is regarded as one of the genuine rarities of the provincial series.
The "cake" designation refers directly to the thick, irregular planchet, a product of local silver-casting rather than rolled strip preparation.