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20 Cash
| Issuer | Hupeh Province |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a floral rosette motif surrounded by four Chinese ideograms arranged in a cruciform pattern reading top, left, right, and bottom. The ideograms form the inscription meaning 'Universal copper coin.' The design is spare and geometric, with the characters evenly distributed around the central flower ornament. |
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| Reverse script | Chinese |
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Hupeh (Hubei) Province had been an early flashpoint of the 1911 Revolution, and its provincial mint continued operating into the Republican period with considerable autonomy. The 1914 issue came during Yuan Shikai's consolidation of central authority, a period when provincial cash coinages were actively being suppressed in favor of nationalized copper cent series — making this one of the later surviving examples of the provincial large-cash format before Beijing's monetary centralization effectively ended it.