10 Fen - Guangxu Made in Tai Province

Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895 under the Treaty of Shimonoseki, making the window for provincial coinage here extraordinarily narrow. The Taipei mint had only been producing machine-struck coins since 1893, and output was cut short before the equipment could be fully exploited. Y#247.2 is distinguished from the closely related 247.1 by a variation in the reverse characters — specifically the rendering of the provincial identifier — making attribution dependent on that single detail rather than any gross physical difference.