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100 Cashes - Guangxu
| Issuer | Kirin Province |
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| Year | 1901 |
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| Value | 100 Cashes (0.1) |
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| Reverse description | Central motif is a coiled dragon in profile facing the pearl of wisdom at the centre, rendered in the typical late Qing provincial style with scaled body and detailed cloud scrollwork in the field. The English legend KIRIN PROVINCE arcs above within a ribbon, and 100 CASHES arcs below within a corresponding ribbon. To the left and right of the dragon appear Manchu script characters reading "Dai Ching Gurun" (Great Qing Empire). The overall reverse design follows the standard format established for Kirin Province machine-struck coinage of the Guangxu period. |
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| Reverse lettering | KIRIN PROVINCE ᡩᠠᡳᠴᡳᠩ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ 100 CASHES (Translation: Great Qing) |
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Kirin Province's brass cash issues of the Guangxu period occupy an awkward position in Chinese numismatic history — produced as the Qing dynasty was hemorrhaging authority following the Boxer Uprising and the subsequent foreign occupation of Beijing. The 1901 date places this coin squarely in the immediate aftermath of the Boxer Protocol negotiations, when provincial administrations were operating with unusual autonomy while the central government managed an indemnity obligation of 450 million taels.
Y#F176 is among the scarcer of the Kirin machine-struck cash denominations. Kirin's mint infrastructure was less developed than Guangdong's or Beiyang's, and surviving brass examples in collectible condition are notably underrepresented in Western auction records relative to their actual historical significance.