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10 Cash
| Issuer | Kiangsi Province |
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| Year | 1912 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1902-1949) |
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| Reverse description | Central device consisting of a bold seven-pointed star with radiating lines issuing from a raised central boss, each point terminating in a small ball finial. The star is surrounded by an inner beaded circle, flanked at left and right by small floral rosette ornaments. The English legend arcs above and below within the beaded border, with the denomination reading along the lower arc. The whole is enclosed within a milled outer border. |
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| Reverse lettering | KIANG-SEE TEN CASH |
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Kiangsi's provincial coinage survived well into the Republic's opening year largely because the new central government lacked both the infrastructure and political authority to immediately consolidate minting across China's interior provinces. This piece dates to that transitional window when local mints continued striking on their own initiative, often retooling imperial machinery with republican imagery under improvised administrative arrangements.
Y#412a distinguishes this variety within the broader Kiangsi 10 Cash series by specific die characteristics. The province had a long history of overproduction in copper cash, and quality control at the Nanchang mint was inconsistent enough that die varieties proliferated with little central oversight.