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10 Cash - Guangxu
| Issuer | Kiangsu Province |
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| Year | 1904-1905 |
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| Weight | 7.63 g |
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| Obverse script | Chinese, Mongolian / Manchu |
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| Reverse description | A sinuous Imperial Chinese dragon, rendered in high relief, dominates the central field, its body coiling in a full circle around a flaming pearl at centre. The dragon's horned head faces forward with open jaws and detailed scales visible along the body. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner border. The English inscription KIANG-SOO appears along the upper arc and TEN CASH along the lower arc, between the beaded border and the raised rim. Variety distinctions exist based on the positioning of clouds beneath the letters of SOO. |
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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.