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10 Cash Type 1, Chung Hua Min Kuo, with Tongbi, Xin Jiang Ka Zao

Issuer Kashgar Mint, Sinkiang Province
Year 1913-1917
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse script Chinese
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Reverse description The reverse features two crossed rectangular flags as the central design motif, rendered in outline with hatched or lined interior patterning, representing the Five-Colored Flag and the Eighteen-Star Army Flag of the early Chinese Republic. Arabic inscriptions appear above and below the crossed flags within the field: the upper legend reading كاشغره قيلغان (Struck in Kashgar) and the lower legend reading اون داچن ليک (10 Cash Coin), with the Hijri date appearing on certain varieties. The entire design is enclosed within a continuous beaded border, consistent with the obverse periphery.
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Kashgar's mint operated under conditions of near-constant political turbulence during this period, its output reflecting the tenuous reach of Republican authority into Chinese Central Asia. The Xinjiang provincial administration retained significant autonomy from Beijing, and local coinage decisions were often made well outside any central directive. The "Tongbi" designation distinguishes these copper cash from the silver-denominated issues also circulating in the province, a necessary distinction in a region where multiple currency systems — Russian, British Indian, and Chinese — competed for daily commercial use.

The three KM subvarieties document real differences in die workmanship, likely reflecting changes in personnel or equipment at the Kashgar facility rather than any policy shift.

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