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1 Yuan - Guangxu 'Silver cake'
| Issuer | Kweichow Provincial Mint |
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| Year | 1890 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | 貴川官爐造光緒十六年 (Translation: Kweichow official furnaces / Made in Year 16 of Guangxu) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Kweichow's silver coinage of this period occupies a peculiar corner of Chinese provincial numismatics. The province lacked a proper modern mint and the equipment to produce milled coinage, so these pieces were struck using rudimentary machinery — hence the "silver cake" designation, which describes both the shape and the crude, uneven edge that distinguishes them from the machine-struck issues coming out of Canton or Beiyang at the same time. Production was limited and apparently short-lived, the provincial authorities abandoning the experiment before any significant quantity entered circulation.
Kann 12 and 13 differ in minor die details; both are scarce, but 13 is the harder find.