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10 Cash - Guangxu Flower at centre, without year
| Issuer | Kiangsu Province |
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| Year | 1902 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a decorative rosette flower motif flanked on either side by Manchu (Mongolian script) characters. Four large Chinese ideograms are arranged vertically in two columns reading top to bottom, right to left, surrounding the central flower. A circular outer legend of Chinese ideograms runs along the periphery, denoting the province of issue, the reign title of Emperor Guangxu, and the denomination. The design is contained within a beaded inner border. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese, Mongolian / Manchu |
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Kiangsu's copper cash issues from this period emerged from a provincial minting scramble triggered by the Qing court's 1900 authorization allowing provinces to strike machine-made copper coins independently. The resulting proliferation was immediate and chaotic — Kiangsu alone produced numerous die varieties within the first few years, which accounts for the four distinct Y# references collapsed under this single type.
The floral centerpiece replacing a year inscription was a deliberate choice by the Kiangsu mint, distinguishing its issues from contemporaneous provincial output. Die marriages across Y#162.4 through .7 differ primarily in the rendering of that central device and in rosette punches at the periphery.