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20 Fen - Guangxu Uncircled dragon
| Issuer | Kiangnan Province Mint |
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| Year | 1898-1900 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Chinese, Manchu |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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Kiangnan's silver fen issues of the late 1890s emerged directly from the Self-Strengthening Movement's push to modernize Chinese coinage infrastructure — the Kiangnan Arsenal mint, already producing military hardware, was retooled for coin production in 1897. Early strikes like these pre-date the cyclical date system introduced on later Kiangnan issues, which makes precise year attribution within the 1898–1900 window dependent almost entirely on die characteristics rather than inscribed dates.
The Y#143a series carries documented varieties across at least four die marriages, with differences concentrated in the dragon's pearl and surrounding flame work — invisible in the catalog fields but consequential to specialists pricing individual examples.