20 Cashes - Guangxu Boo-gi, eight characters

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.