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10 Fen - Guangxu 7.3 Candareens
| Issuer | Kwangtung Province Mint |
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| Year | 1889 |
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| Weight | 2.70 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears four Chinese ideograms arranged vertically in two columns, flanked by Manchu script characters at centre, reading the imperial reign title Guangxu and the designation Yuanbao (original currency). The design is enclosed within a beaded inner border, with an English-language circular legend running along the outer periphery identifying the issuing province and denomination. |
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| Mintage | ND (1889) - - ND (1889) - Proof - |
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Kwangtung's 1889 silver fen issues mark the province's first serious attempt at mechanized coinage, the mint having acquired British-made presses through arrangements brokered partly by the Imperial Maritime Customs Service. The candareen weight standard used here — a Chinese monetary unit rather than a Western one — reflects the Qing court's insistence on maintaining indigenous weight nomenclature even as the physical production process was thoroughly Europeanized.
The Guangzhou facility that struck these pieces would become the model for subsequent provincial mints across China, with its equipment specifications and organizational structure replicated at Hubei and elsewhere within the decade.