10 Cash - Guangxu Mule

A mule in the truest numismatic sense — obverse and reverse dies intended for different issues were paired, almost certainly by accident, during the controlled chaos of Kiangnan's mechanized mint operation in its early years. The Kiangnan Arsenal mint was among China's first to adopt Western coining machinery, and the transitional period produced a documented pattern of die mismatches as workers managed multiple simultaneous provincial issues. Y#D140 is one of the scarcer results of that process.