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20 Fen - Guangxu Pattern, copper
| Issuer | Hupeh Province |
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| Year | 1895 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse script | Chinese, Mongolian / Manchu |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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Hupeh's 1895 copper pattern issues preceded the province's regular machine-struck coinage series and were produced as test pieces to evaluate the new steam-powered presses installed at the Wuchang mint — one of the first provincial mints in China to adopt Western minting technology under the late Qing modernization program. Very few were struck, and they were never released for circulation.
The Wuchang mint's establishment owed much to Zhang Zhidong, the governor-general who championed industrial reform in Hubei and personally negotiated the import of British machinery in the early 1890s.