1 Yuan Pattern, 'Junk dollar', without sun and birds, reduced size, brass

By 1935, the Nationalist government was moving aggressively to centralize monetary control, culminating in the November currency reform that abolished the silver standard and introduced fiat paper notes — rendering a circulating silver dollar effectively obsolete before this pattern was ever struck. This brass piece belongs to a cluster of 1935 pattern trials exploring alternative compositions and reduced dimensions, part of a broader exercise that never reached production.

The Kann 632z designation places it among the rarer compositional variants in that trial sequence. Brass patterns from this period were almost certainly internal mint experiments rather than formally submitted proposals.