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20 Cash 1st issue, cast brass, warlord issue
| Issuer | Republic of China |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Three large Chinese characters 貳拾文 (Twenty Cash/Wen) occupy the central field, rendered in bold low relief. The characters are framed within an open floral wreath composed of leafy branches tied at the base, with blossoms distributed along the sprays. The scalloped outer rim, consistent with the cast manufacture, forms the border of the reverse, and the overall design is characteristic of warlord-era provincial cast coinage. |
| Reverse script | Chinese |
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This piece dates to the chaotic warlord period following Yuan Shikai's death in 1916, when provincial military commanders across China began issuing their own coinage with little or no authorization from Beijing. The 1919 date places it squarely in the fractured interregnum before the Nationalist consolidation of the 1920s, when local brass casting was often the only practical means of producing emergency small change.
Cast rather than struck, which distinguishes it immediately from contemporaneous machine-made issues and points to a provincial mint operating well outside central oversight.