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10 Fen
| Issuer | Republic of China |
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| Year | 1940-1942 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing draped bust of Sun Yat-sen occupying the central field, rendered in low relief. A circular legend in Chinese characters arcs above the effigy, reading the regnal year of the Republic of China. The entire design is contained within a beaded or decorative inner border. |
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| Edge | Reeded or Plain |
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Issued by the Central Bank of China during the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War, this small-denomination coin circulated alongside a rapidly deteriorating paper currency as the Nationalist government struggled to finance its wartime operations from the temporary capital at Chongqing. Metal coinage of this period grew increasingly difficult to sustain — by 1942, the pressures on raw material supply forced the abandonment of copper-nickel in favor of cheaper alloys, making this one of the last issues in the composition.