100 Cashes - Guangxu

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.