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10 Cash Urumchi
| Issuer | Sinkiang Province |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Cash (0.01) |
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| Obverse lettering | 造年酉辛國民 新 幣銅 省 文十錢紅當 (Translation: Made in Year 58 of the Republic Sinkiang Province / Copper coin Each piece worth 10 Cash) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Urumchi (Ürümqi) operated as one of several semi-independent minting centers in Sinkiang during the early Republican period, producing cash coinage well after the denomination had been abandoned across most of China. The province's geographic isolation — separated from central authority by the Gobi and the Tian Shan — meant local military governors effectively controlled monetary policy independent of Beijing. This issue dates to the warlord governorship of Yang Zengxin, who ran Sinkiang as a personal fiefdom from 1912 until his assassination at a banquet in 1928.
The Urumchi mint's copper output from this period is notoriously inconsistent in die alignment and planchet quality.