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10 Cash - Xuantong Without minting authority
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1909-1911 |
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| Value | 10 Cash (0.01) |
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| Reverse lettering | 造年統宣 TAI-CHING-TI-KUO COPPER COIN. (Translation: Made in the reign of Xuantong (Emperor) Copper coin of the Great Qing Empire) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Xuantong — the reign name of Puyi, China's last emperor — gave his name to coins he almost certainly never handled. These 10 cash pieces were struck during the Qing dynasty's terminal years, when central authority had so thoroughly collapsed that provincial mints operated without consistent oversight from Beijing. The absence of a minting authority attribution on this type is not an oversight in the catalog — it reflects a genuine historical ambiguity that specialists have never fully resolved.
The dynasty fell in 1912, making the entire Xuantong coinage window less than three years.