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100 Cash Copper
| Issuer | Szechuan Provincial Military Government |
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| Year | 1913-1914 |
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| Value | 100 Cash (0.1) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears a single large Chinese ideogram rendered in Seal script (篆書), enclosed within a beaded inner ring. The surrounding annular border carries additional Chinese ideograms arranged in a horizontal legend above the central device. The inscription reads 中華民國二年 漢 (Year 2 of the Republic of China, Han), with characters disposed in the customary right-to-left reading order. The overall design is stark and geometric, relying on the monumental calligraphic character as the primary decorative and symbolic element. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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The Szechuan Provincial Military Government came into existence following the 1911 Wuchang Uprising, and the province had been among the most turbulent theaters of the Republican revolution — the Railway Protection Movement that directly triggered the uprising originated there. These large-denomination cash pieces were struck to address an acute shortage of subsidiary coinage during the chaotic transition from Qing administration, when the new provincial authorities needed to assert fiscal control quickly and the existing monetary infrastructure had effectively collapsed.
Production spanned only the two-year window before the provincial military government was consolidated into the broader Republican framework. Known die variations exist within the Y#450 type.