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20 Fen - Guangxu
| Issuer | Kirin Province |
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| Year | 1900-1905 |
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| Reference(s) | Y#181a |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | At centre, a sinuous five-clawed dragon is depicted in high relief, facing forward with a flaming pearl positioned prominently before it. The English legend KIRIN PROVINCE arcs across the upper periphery, while the denomination 1 MACE AND 44 CANDAREENS is inscribed along the lower periphery. Manchu script characters appear in the left and right fields, flanking the dragon. The design follows the standard late Qing dragon-type format common to provincial silver issues of the period. |
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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.