10 Cash

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.