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10 Cash - Guangxu Mule, Kiangnan, with year
| Issuer | Kiangsu Province Mint |
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| Year | 1902-1903 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features large Chinese and Manchu characters filling the central field, arranged in a traditional format. The reign title 光緒 (Guangxu) appears prominently at center, flanked by the Manchu script ᠪᠣᠣ ᠰᡠ (Boo-su, denoting the mint). The cyclical year characters 壬寅 or 癸卯 appear to the left of the central legends, identifying the year of issue. An outer legend reads 江蘇省造 (Made in Kiangsu Province) at the top and 當錢十文每元 (Each yuan worth ten cash) at the bottom, separated from the central inscriptions by a beaded inner border. The rim is defined by a raised reeded edge. |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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A mule in the strict numismatic sense: the obverse and reverse dies were drawn from two different intended coin types, paired either by accident or deliberate expediency during a period when the Kiangnan mint was managing overlapping die inventories under considerable production pressure. The Qing provincial mints of this period were not operating with the precision of a centralized authority — die mixing was a documented hazard, not a rarity. What makes this piece catalogued under separate Y# references is precisely that irregularity: neither parent type, but a hybrid with its own identity.