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10 Cash - Guangxu Mule
| Issuer | Anhwei Province |
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| Year | 1902-1906 |
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| Weight | 7.40 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Chinese |
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| Reverse description | Central device features a sinuous Imperial dragon in high relief, nearly identical in style to the obverse, coiling amid clouds and flames with its horned head facing forward. The scaled body is finely engraved with clawed feet outstretched and a flaming pearl below. A beaded inner border frames the dragon, surrounded by a toothed outer border at the rim. The legend 'AN-HWEI' is inscribed in Latin characters arcing across the upper field. The use of the same dragon type on both sides is characteristic of this mule variety, combining dies not originally intended to be paired. |
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A mule, in minting terms, results from the accidental or deliberate pairing of dies that were never intended to work together. Anhwei's provincial mint was notoriously disorganized during the machine-struck cash era, operating under inconsistent supervision as the Qing central government struggled to impose any coherent standards on the proliferating provincial issues of the early 1900s. Dies were shared, borrowed, and mismatched with enough frequency that variety collectors treat Anhwei output from this period as a category unto itself.
The Y#36a designation with "var." flags this piece outside the cataloged mainstream — likely a die pairing documented in specialist literature but insufficiently common to earn its own primary number.