20 Fen - Guangxu Eight characters, type 2

Anhwei's silver coinage of this period was produced under chronic institutional instability — the provincial mint changed supervisory authority multiple times in the late Qing reform push, and die quality varied accordingly. The "Eight characters" designation distinguishes this type by the arrangement of Manchu and Chinese script, a detail that mattered administratively as much as it did metrologically, since competing provincial issues were actively jostling for acceptance in Yangtze valley trade.

Y#43.5 sits in a numbering cluster reflecting just how many die variants Anhwei produced in a compressed window. The .920 fineness matched the broader Qing effort to standardize subsidiary silver, though provincial compliance was uneven at best.