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10 Cash - Guangxu
| Issuer | Kiangsu Province |
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| Year | 1904-1905 |
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| Value | 10 Cash (0.01) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears four Chinese ideograms arranged in a cruciform pattern reading top to bottom and right to left, flanked on either side by Manchu script characters. A decorative floral rosette occupies the centre between the ideograms. A circular legend of Chinese ideograms surrounds the entire central device, with the inscription denoting the province of manufacture, the Boo-su mint, the Guangxu Emperor's reign title, the denomination Yuanbao, and the value of ten cash. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kiangsu was among the most commercially active of the provincial mints authorized to produce copper cash during the late Qing reform program, which sought to standardize machine-struck coinage across China following the catastrophic monetary fragmentation of the 1890s. The province operated multiple facilities, and output consistency between them was notoriously poor — Y#160 pieces show meaningful die variation attributable to the Soochow and Chinkiang operations running with limited coordination.
The 1904–1905 window corresponds directly to the Russo-Japanese War period, when copper commodity pressures and increased military expenditure throughout East Asia strained provincial mint budgets across the board.