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10 Cash Fengtien/ Hunan
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Currency | Cash (621-1912) |
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| Obverse description | Plain field bearing two large Chinese characters, 當圓 (Tung Yuen, meaning 'equal to one yuan'), arranged vertically at centre. The characters are rendered in a bold, upright clerical style. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner border running parallel to the coin's rim, with no additional legends or devices in the field. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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Fengtien (Manchuria) and Hunan were among the first provincial mints to receive modern coin-pressing machinery in the late Qing period, and the technical overlap between them produced a number of hybrid or misattributed issues that still generate disagreement among specialists. The Fengtien mint was established with equipment purchased directly from abroad in the 1890s, making it one of the better-equipped facilities in the empire at the time.
Provincial 10-cash copper coinage of this type circulated alongside a flood of low-quality imitative strikes, many produced by unauthorized local foundries copying legitimate dies.