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10 Cash - Guangxu Pei Yang
| Issuer | Chihli Province |
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| Year | 1906 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ᠪᠠᡩᠠᠷᠠᠩᡤᠠ ᡩᠣᠷᠣ ᡳ᠋ ᠶᡠᠸᠠᠨ ᠪᠣᠣ 洋北 光 寶元 緒 文十錢制當 (Translation: Guangxu (Emperor) / Yuanbao (Original currency) Pei Yang Guangxu (Emperor) / Yuanbao (Original currency) 10 Cash currency) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Pei Yang ("Northern Ocean") Arsenal at Tianjin produced this issue under the Guangxu Emperor during the final convulsions of Qing monetary reform. The Board of Revenue had been pushing since 1903 to rationalize China's chaotic provincial copper coinage, but Chihli — as the metropolitan province surrounding Peking — operated with considerable autonomy. The 1906 date places this piece squarely in the brief window before the Qing court's 1907 centralization edicts began shutting down or absorbing provincial minting operations.
Y#67 is among the more frequently encountered Pei Yang copper types, though die alignment and strike quality vary considerably across the run.