10 Cash - Guangxu With year, Boo-chuan, Kucha

Xinjiang's copper cash issues of this period reflect the Qing court's repeated attempts to stabilize a province that had been reconquered from Yaqub Beg's breakaway Kashgaria state only in 1878. The Kucha mint — one of several Xinjiang facilities pressed into service for local coinage — operated under chronic supply constraints, relying on copper sources far removed from the established provincial networks of interior China.

Hartill 22.1490 is among the more localized of the Guangxu machine-struck issues, with output that never approached the volumes of the major metropolitan mints.