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20 Cash - Guangxu With minting authority
| Issuer | Board of Revenue Mint (Tientsin Central Mint) |
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| Year | 1905-1907 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1903-1912) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (Traditional) / Manchu |
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| Mintage | 42 (1905) - 巳乙: Y#11: Tientsin Central Mint - 42 (1905) 奉 - 巳乙: Y#11 g: Fengtien Mint - 43 (1906) - 午丙: Y#11.1: Tientsin Central Mint - 43 (1906) 川 - 午丙: Y#11t: Szechuan Mint - 43 (1906) 晥 - 午丙: Y#11a: Anhwei Mint - 43 (1906) 浙 - 午丙: Y#11b: Chekiang Mint - 43 (1906) 滇 - 午丙: Y#11v.1: Yunnan Mint - 43 (1906) 滇川 - 午丙: Y#11w: Yunnan-Szechuan Mint - 43 (1906) 直 - 午丙: Y#11c: Chihli Mint - 43 (1906) 蘇 - 午丙: Y#11n.1: Kiangsu Mint - 43 (1906) 鄂 - 午丙: Y#11j: Hupeh Mint - 43 (1906) 雲 - 午丙: Y#11u: Yunnan Mint (large mintmark) - 645,000 43 (1906) 雲 - 午丙: Y#11u.1: Yunnan Mint (small mintmark) - 44 (1907) - 未丁: Y#11.2: Tientsin Central Mint (thin type) - 44 (1907) - 未丁: Y#11.3: Tientsin Central Mint (thick type) - |
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The Board of Revenue Mint at Tientsin was established in 1903 partly to wrest control of copper cash production away from the provincial mints, whose unchecked output had already destabilized the currency. By 1905 those provincial mints were flooding markets with underweight issues, and the central authority's heavier, more carefully supervised coinage was a deliberate corrective measure. The Board of Revenue issues carry the explicit notation of minting authority precisely because that attribution mattered — it distinguished these pieces from the provincial flood.
Production ended around 1907 when the Qing government's broader currency reforms shifted emphasis toward a decimal machine-struck coinage system that would eventually render the cash denomination obsolete entirely.