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10 Cash - Guangxu Five characters
| Issuer | Anhwei Provincial Mint |
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| Year | 1902-1906 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears four large Chinese characters arranged in a cruciform pattern reading 光緒元寶 (Guangxu Yuanbao, meaning 'Guangxu Original Currency'), with a small decorative rosette at the center. Flanking the central characters on the left and right are Manchu script characters reading 'Boo-an', denoting the Anhwei Mint. The upper arc of the inner beaded circle carries the five Chinese characters 安徽省造 (Made in Anhwei Province), while the lower arc reads 當制錢十文 (Equal to ten cash). The entire design is enclosed within a dotted inner border and an outer milled rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | 造省徽安 ᠪᠣᠣ ᠠᠨ 光 寶元 緒 文十錢制當 (Translation: Made in Anhwei Province Boo-an (An-hwei Mint) Guangxu (Emperor) / Yuanbao (Original currency) 10 Cash currency) |
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Anhwei's copper cash production in the early 1900s was notoriously inconsistent. The provincial mint at Anqing operated with imported British machinery but chronic funding shortfalls meant irregular striking schedules and highly variable planchet quality. Y#36a specifically designates the variety with five Chinese characters across the top of the obverse field — a distinction that matters for attribution because Anhwei issued closely related types with differing character counts that are frequently conflated in older references.
The province was among the more prolific contributors to the flood of machine-struck copper that destabilized the Qing cash economy during this period, prompting the Board of Revenue to issue repeated (largely ignored) caps on provincial mintage.