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10 Cash Provincial Constitution, with flower
| Issuer | Hunan Province |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Two crossed flags occupy the central field, the left flag bearing a twelve-pointed snowflake or starburst device and the right flag displaying horizontal stripes, their staffs bound together at the base. A five-petalled rosette or plum blossom appears above the intersection of the flags at the top of the field. The entire central device is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the English legend arcing around the upper periphery and the denomination along the lower periphery outside the beaded border. |
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| Mintage | 11 (1922) - 年一十 |
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Hunan's 1922 copper cash issues emerged from a period of intense warlord competition for provincial legitimacy, with local military governors using coin production as much for political signaling as for commerce. The Changsha mint operated under shifting authority throughout this period, and output quality varied considerably depending on who was effectively in control of the facility at any given time.
The flower variety catalogued under Y#402 is distinguished from related Hunan provincial types by that single decorative element — a detail that sounds minor but has driven genuine collector differentiation for decades. Die marriages across the 1922 Hunan issues remain incompletely documented.