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2 Jiao
| Issuer | Kwangtung Province |
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| Year | 1928-1930 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing bust of Sun Yat-sen in civilian dress with a mandarin collar, rendered in high relief with finely engraved hair and a characteristic moustache. The effigy occupies the central field with no surrounding legend, presenting a clean and austere design typical of Republican-era Chinese provincial coinage. The portrait is executed in a naturalistic style, with subtle facial detail and smooth surrounding fields. A finely reeded border frames the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | 年八十國民華中 貳 毫 造省東廣 (Translation: Year 18 of the Republic of China 2 Jiao Made in Kwangtung Province) |
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Kwangtung Province maintained its own mint and issued provincial silver well into the Nationalist period, operating with a degree of monetary autonomy that the central government in Nanjing was still too weak to suppress. This 2 Jiao type falls within the years when the Kuomintang was consolidating power after the Northern Expedition, but provincial warlord-era financial infrastructure remained largely intact across Guangdong.
The Kwangtung mint had been modernized under foreign technical supervision in the late Qing period and continued producing mechanically struck silver through this transitional era with reasonable consistency.