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10 Cash Minguo Tongbao
| Issuer | Republic of China |
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| Year | 1912 |
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| Value | 10 Cash |
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| Reverse lettering | 當十 (Translation: Dang Shi - Value 10) |
| Edge | Plain |
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The Republic of China proclaimed in January 1912 inherited a monetary system in chaos — the Qing cash coinage had been debased repeatedly in its final decades, and provincial mints were operating with little central coordination. This piece belongs to the transitional issues struck almost immediately after abdication, when republican authorities were retooling imperial mint facilities and the term "Minguo Tongbao" was chosen to signal rupture from dynastic coinage while retaining the familiar cash format that ordinary commerce still demanded.
Production was concentrated in the early months of 1912 across multiple provincial facilities, which accounts for the die inconsistencies documented across the Hartill 24.x series.