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10 Cash - Guangxu Tongbao, Aksu for Kashgar
| Issuer | Board of Revenue, Qing Dynasty |
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| Year | 1880-1889 |
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| Technique | Cast |
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| Obverse description | Central square hole flanked by four large Chinese characters cast in regular script (kaishu), arranged in the traditional cross reading: 光 (guang) above, 緒 (xu) below, 通 (tong) to the right, and 寶 (bao) to the left, together rendering the reign title legend 光緒通寶 (Guangxu Tongbao, meaning 'Guangxu Current Treasure'). The characters are bold and well-defined against a flat, unadorned field. The coin is struck with a plain raised rim encircling the entire face. The surface shows characteristic green and brown patination consistent with cast copper alloy coinage of the late Qing period. |
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| Obverse lettering | 光緒通寶 |
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Aksu mint produced coins nominally for Kashgar circulation during the 1880s as part of the Qing effort to reassert administrative control over Xinjiang following Zuo Zongtang's reconquest of the region from Yaqub Beg's Khoqandi-backed emirate, completed in 1878. The provincial mint system was deliberately fragmented — different cities struck coins ostensibly destined for other cities — as a bureaucratic mechanism to distribute seigniorage revenue across the newly re-integrated territory.
Hartill 22.1468 is among the scarcer Aksu-for-Kashgar pairings, reflecting the brevity and administrative disorder of the resettlement period.