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20 Fen - Guangxu
| Issuer | Kirin Province |
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| Year | 1900-1905 |
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| Value | 20 Fen (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | At centre, a yin-yang symbol is surrounded by four Chinese characters arranged at the cardinal points. A further encircling band of Chinese characters forms the primary legend, reading top to bottom and right to left around the periphery. The inscriptions identify the issuing province (Kirin), the regnal year and era name of the Guangxu Emperor, and the denomination expressed in traditional weight units. The overall design is in the characteristic style of late Qing provincial machine-struck silver coinage. |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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Kirin Province operated one of the more idiosyncratic minting programs in late Qing China, producing silver coinage on non-standard weight bases that diverged from the central government's preferred tael and mace system. The Kirin mint sourced much of its silver from local trade networks connected to the Manchurian interior, and its output was intended primarily to displace the Mexican and Japanese silver coins that dominated commercial circulation in the northeast at the turn of the century.
Y#181a designates the variety with Manchu script, distinguishing it from related Kirin issues of the same period that omit it.