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20 Fen - Guangxu Four characters
| Issuer | Anhwei Province |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed Chinese imperial dragon rendered in high relief occupies the central field, its sinuous scaled body coiling dynamically with clawed feet extended and a fierce frontal face. A flaming pearl is depicted at the centre beneath the dragon's head. The dragon is surrounded by a circular English-language legend along the upper and lower periphery, separated by five-pointed stars serving as dividers, all within a reeded border. |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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Anhwei's provincial mint was among the least consistent of the late Qing silver operations, and this issue reflects that directly. The L&M#196 attribution captures a known variation in the arrangement of the four Chinese characters on the obverse, a distinction that emerged from the province's habit of resetting dies without strict reference to a master template. Anhwei had only recently established its machinery-based mint in the 1890s, relying on equipment and technical guidance that arrived piecemeal — a condition that bred exactly the kind of minor but catalogable inconsistency collectors now track across the Y#43 and Y#43.1 designations.