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20 Fen - Guangxu Five characters
| Issuer | Fukien Province |
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| Year | 1896-1903 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1896-1949) |
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| Obverse lettering | 造局官建福 光 ᠪᠠᡩᠠᡵᠠᠩᡤᠠ 寶 ᠶᡠᠸᠠᠨ ᠪᠣᠣ 元 ᡩᠣᡵᠣ 緒 釐四分四錢一平庫 (Translation: Made in Fukien Mint Guangxu (Emperor) / Yuanbao (Original currency) Guangxu (Emperor) / Yuanbao (Original currency) Worth 1 Mace and 4.4 Candareens (weight)) |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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Fukien's silver coinage of this period emerged directly from the province's modernized mint at Fuzhou, which the Qing court had equipped with British machinery in the early 1890s. The five-character reverse inscription distinguishes this type from the later four-character variety — a change introduced after 1903 that helps narrow otherwise ambiguous dating across the series.
The .820 fineness is notably lower than the .900 standard adopted by other provincial mints, a discrepancy that generated complaints from merchants and foreign trading houses operating out of Fuzhou and Amoy throughout the issue's production run.