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2 Jiao / 20 Cents Pattern
| Issuer | Chekiang Province |
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| Year | 1924 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Central field features two large crossed flags, their staffs intertwined at center with a circular device, the flag surfaces rendered with diagonal line engraving. The flags are displayed symmetrically, filling the majority of the coin's field. A border of Chinese ideograms encircles the design, reading the provincial and date inscriptions. The entire composition is executed in a bold, low-relief milled style typical of early Republican Chinese provincial coinage. |
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| Reverse description | The obverse legend reads 'CHE-KIANG PROVINCE' in English along the upper periphery, with 'TWENTY CENTS' along the lower periphery, flanking four Chinese ideograms arranged centrally reading '貳毫銀幣' (Twenty Cents Silver Coin) from top to bottom and right to left. The inscription is set within a plain field with a reeded border, presenting a clean typographic layout characteristic of Republican-era Chinese pattern coinage. |
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Chekiang Province struck relatively few pattern issues in the Republican period, and this 1924 piece exists in extremely limited numbers — pattern coinage from provincial mints was rarely authorized for general circulation, produced instead to test dies or solicit approval from provincial authorities who, in this era of warlord fragmentation, often had final say over whether a coin entered production at all. The central government in Beijing held diminishing influence over southern mint operations by this point.
No regular-issue counterpart to this pattern entered circulation, making Kann#768 one of the terminal entries in Chekiang's silver coinage history.