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10 Cash Copper
| Issuer | Szechuan Provincial Government Military |
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| Year | 1912-1913 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays four large Chinese ideograms arranged vertically and read right to left in two columns, with a decorative floral rosette at the centre. The outer legend, reading clockwise, bears the inscription 四川軍政府造 幣銅當制錢十文, identifying the issuing authority as the Szechuan Provincial Military Government and the denomination as ten cash copper currency. The composition is formal and symmetrical, consistent with Chinese provincial republican milled coinage of the period. |
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Issued by the Szechuan Provincial Government Military in the chaotic transition following the Wuchang Uprising of October 1911, this piece reflects the patchwork monetary authority that briefly characterized the new republic's western provinces. Szechuan had been a flashpoint — the Railway Protection Movement there directly triggered the revolution — and the provincial military government moved quickly to assert fiscal control before central authority could be established from Nanjing or Beijing.
The 1912–1913 window was short, and civilian central mint oversight reasserted itself soon after.