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20 Cash - Xuantong Pattern, copper
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1911 |
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| Value | 20 Cash (0.02) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script) |
| Obverse lettering | 年三統宣 二 十 文 圓一幣銀挽枚十五 (Translation: Year 3 of Xuantong 20 Cash (Wen) 50 in 1 silver Yuan) |
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Produced in the final months of the Qing dynasty, this pattern was struck as the imperial government scrambled to modernize and centralize coin production — a project rendered immediately moot by the Wuchang Uprising of October 1911. Xuantong, the child emperor Puyi, was barely six years old when these trial pieces were being evaluated.
Hsu#32 documents a small survivor pool; patterns from this period were never approved for circulation, and most were either melted or dispersed as the dynasty collapsed within weeks of their striking.