10 Cash - Guangxu 'TSING-KIANG', without flower

Chingkiang (Zhenjiang) was one of the original treaty ports opened under the 1858 Treaty of Tientsin, and its brief experiment with local copper coinage reflects the chaotic decentralization of Chinese minting authority during the late Qing. The variety without the decorative flower element distinguishes this from the more commonly encountered Y#78.3, a die difference that likely originated from a punch substitution mid-production rather than any deliberate policy change.