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10 Fen Pattern, 2nd series, nickel, with Jin
| Issuer | Republic of China |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Composition | Nickel |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing draped bust of Sun Yat-sen occupying the central field, surrounded by a decorative beaded or rope border. A horizontal legend in Chinese characters arcs above the effigy reading 中華民國二十五年 (Year 25 of the Republic of China), with the character 津 (Jin) appearing below the portrait. The overall design is executed in a formal, medallic style characteristic of Republican-era Chinese pattern coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Chinese |
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By 1936, the Nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek was pushing hard to standardize China's chaotic coinage system, and the Central Mint in Shanghai produced multiple competing pattern submissions for the proposed second-series decimal coinage. The "with Jin" designation refers to the inclusion of the character 鎳 (jin, meaning nickel) on the coin, an explicit compositional declaration that appeared on some pattern variants but not others — a detail that generated genuine debate among mint officials about whether labeling metal content was necessary or redundant given the planned public education campaigns.
The full second-series program was effectively killed by the outbreak of full-scale war with Japan in 1937. These patterns never reached circulation.