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2 Jiao 5 Fen / 1/4 Dollar - Xuantong
| Issuer | Ta-Ching Government Bank |
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| Year | 1910 |
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| Value | 2 Jiao 5 Fen = 1/4 Dollar |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script), Manchu |
| Obverse lettering | ᡩᠠᡳᠴᡳᠩ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ ᠮᡝᠩᡤᡠᠨ ᡠᠯᡳᠨ 大 幣銀 清 分伍角貳 (Translation: Qing dynasty's National Bank Great Qing's silver currency 2 Jiao 5 Fen) |
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The Ta-Ching Government Bank was established in 1905 as the Qing dynasty's first modern central bank, granted authority to issue both paper currency and coinage. This quarter dollar belongs to a series authorized during Xuantong's reign — the child emperor Puyi, enthroned at age two — as the dynasty made its final, largely futile attempts to rationalize a hopelessly fragmented monetary system. The bank's coinage authority was effectively terminated when the Republic was declared in 1912, cutting the series short.
Kann #221 specimens show meaningful variation in die alignment and edge treatment across surviving examples.