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20 Cash - Guangxu Hu Poo, with circled dragon
| Issuer | Hu Poo (Board of Revenue) |
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| Year | 1903-1905 |
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| Value | 20 Cash (0.02) |
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| Obverse lettering | ᠪᠠᡩᠠᡵᠠᠩᡤᠠ ᡩᠣᡵᠣ 光緒元寶 大清銅幣 戶部 (Translation: Guangxu (Manchu) / Guangxu Yuan Bao (Chinese, center) / Great Qing Copper Coin, Hu Poo (Board of Revenue) (Chinese, outer)) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Hu Poo (Board of Revenue) mint in Beijing was established specifically to produce machine-struck copper cash under the Guangxu Emperor's currency reforms, part of a broader Qing effort to rationalize a coinage system that had fragmented badly across provincial mints issuing wildly inconsistent weights and alloys. This central mint was intended to set the standard. It largely failed — provincial mints ignored Beijing's model, and the Hu Poo mint itself closed within a few years.
The "circled dragon" variety distinguishes this emission from related issues and is reflected in the Y#5aa attribution. Survivors in problem-free condition are scarcer than the type's general familiarity suggests.