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10 Fen - Guangxu
| Issuer | Manchurian Provinces |
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| Year | 1907 |
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| Reference(s) | Y#209 |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed Chinese imperial dragon is depicted in high relief at centre, shown in a coiling posture with scales, claws, and whiskers rendered in intricate detail, confronting a flaming pearl above its head. The dragon occupies the full field and is surrounded by a beaded inner border. The Latin legend arcs along the upper periphery reading '33RD YEAR OF KUANG HSU' and along the lower periphery reading 'MANCHURIAN PROVINCES', separated by raised dot stops at either side. |
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| Reverse lettering | 33RD YEAR OF KUANG HSU MANCHURIAN PROVINCES |
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The Manchurian Provincial coinage of 1907 emerged from a deliberate push by Qing authorities to regularize currency in the northeast, where Russian and Japanese commercial interests had flooded the region with foreign silver following the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05. Control over coinage was, in that environment, inseparable from questions of territorial sovereignty — the Qing court understood that whoever's money circulated in Manchuria held practical authority there.
Y#209 is the 10 fen denomination struck at the Fengtian mint. Survivors in problem-free condition are genuinely scarce; the region's turbulent twentieth century was not kind to stored silver.