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20 Cash - Guangxu Brass
| Issuer | Szechuan Province |
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| Year | 1903-1905 |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Reverse description | A sinuous imperial dragon occupies the central field, depicted in high relief with prominent scales, antler-like horns, and clawed feet, coiling around a flaming pearl at centre. The dragon's body fills the field within a beaded inner border. The English legend 'SZE CHUEN' arcs across the upper periphery, with '20 CASH' along the lower periphery, separated by small floral ornaments at each side. The entire design is enclosed within a toothed outer milled border, consistent with Qing provincial milled coinage of the period. |
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| Mintage | ND (1903-1905) - Large Manchu - ND (1903-1905) - Small Manchu - |
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Szechuan's brass 20 Cash issues from this period are something of an anomaly among provincial machine-struck coinage. Most provinces adopted copper for their cash denominations following the 1900 Board of Revenue directive to modernize token coinage, but Szechuan's mint — established in Chengdu with imported British machinery — ran brass through the presses during this transitional window, likely drawing on available stock rather than deliberate policy.
The Y#230.7a designation places this squarely among the recognized die varieties catalogued by Kann and refined through Yeoman, though Szechuan attribution can be complicated by the province's habit of reworking hub punches mid-run.