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10 Cash - Guangxu 'SHANTUNG': with Manchu
| Issuer | Shantung Province |
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| Year | 1904-1905 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1904-1949) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Shantung Province entered copper cash production relatively late in the provincial machine-struck coinage movement, receiving authorization around 1904. The inclusion of Manchu script alongside Chinese characters was not universal across provincial issues of this period — its presence here reflects the Qing court's ongoing insistence on bilingual administrative symbolism even as central authority over provincial minting was rapidly eroding. Within a few years, that authority had collapsed entirely, and provinces were issuing coinage with little reference to Peking at all.
Y#221.1 and 221.2 distinguish minor die variations in the English legend spacing.