10 Cash - Guangxu With minting authority

The 10 Cash copper coins issued under Guangxu were produced across a chaotic proliferation of provincial mints, each operating with varying quality controls and differing interpretations of the central design mandate. The Qing court's attempt to standardize coinage through the Board of Revenue in the early 1900s was persistently undermined by provincial governors who jealously guarded local minting revenues. Y#10 specifically attributes production to an authorized imperial facility, distinguishing it from the flood of provincial and counterfeit pieces that saturated circulation during the same years.

Guangxu himself had been reduced to a political prisoner by 1898, confined to the Yingtai palace island by the Empress Dowager Cixi following the failed Hundred Days' Reform.