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2 Cash - Xuantong Pattern, with hole
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1910 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features four large Chinese characters in traditional regular script (kaishu), arranged around a central circular hole: 大 (great) at the top, 清 (Qing) at the bottom, 銅 (copper) to the right, and 幣 (currency) to the left, together reading 大清銅幣 — 'Great Qing Copper Currency'. The characters are rendered in bold, deeply incuse relief, radiating outward from the central perforation. A plain raised rim encircles the design field. |
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| Obverse lettering | 大 幣 銅 清 (Translation: Great Qing`s copper currency) |
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Xuantong's reign lasted just three years before the 1911 Revolution ended two millennia of imperial rule. This 1910 pattern was part of a broader currency reform effort under the Qing that sought to rationalize China's chaotic multi-standard coinage system — an effort that never reached implementation. Pattern issues from this terminal phase of the dynasty are scarce precisely because the program collapsed with the government itself.
The retention of the square hole places this squarely in the tension between reformist and traditionalist factions within the late Qing bureaucracy.