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20 Cashes - Guangxu Boo-gi, eight characters
| Issuer | Kirin Province |
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| Year | 1903 |
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| Thickness | 2.0 mm |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1903: ND (1903) |
| Additional information |
Kirin Province's copper cash series of the early 1900s was produced under significant administrative pressure as the Qing central government pushed provincial mints to mechanize and adopt Western-style struck coinage to displace the older cast cash economy. The Boo-gi mint — the Manchu name for Jilin city — operated with inconsistent equipment and supply chains, which accounts for the multiple die varieties documented across this denomination.
Y#A176 distinguishes this piece from the related Y#176 issues by its eight-character reverse inscription rather than the more common six-character format — a small bureaucratic distinction that nonetheless defines separate catalog entries and affects relative scarcity.