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10 Cashes - Guangxu Boo-gi
| Issuer | Kirin Province Mint (Boo-gi) |
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| Year | 1901 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1898-1909) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features four large Chinese ideograms arranged in a cruciform reading pattern, flanked by floral ornaments at the centre. A horizontal inscription in Chinese characters appears above and below the central group, while Manchu script characters occupy the left and right fields respectively. The entire design is set within a plain inner border, with the provincial and reign-period inscriptions together identifying the issuing mint and the Guangxu Emperor. |
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| Obverse lettering | 造省林吉 ᠪᠣᠣ ᡬᡳ 光 寶元 緒 十當 (Translation: Made in Kirin Province Boo-gi (Kirin/Jilin Mint) Guangxu (Emperor) / Yuanbao (Original currency) 10 Cashes) |
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Kirin Province's copper cash issues of the early 1900s emerged from a mint system under intense pressure to modernize — the Qing dynasty had authorized provincial minting of machine-struck copper to displace the centuries-old cast cash coinage that was failing to meet commercial demand. Boo-gi, the Manchu designation for the Kirin Board of Revenue mint, distinguished its output from the separate military treasury operation running concurrently in the same province.
Y#176 is among the scarcer of the Kirin provincial coppers, the mint having a shorter productive run than the more prolific southern provincial operations at Guangdong or Hubei.