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| Issuer | Yunnan Province Mint |
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| Year | 1911-1915 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse script | Chinese/Manchu |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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| Additional information |
The original Yunnan 20-fen silver patterns were produced around 1908–1911 as the Qing provincial mint system was collapsing under its own administrative contradictions. The copper restrikes — made from original or reworked dies sometime in the early Republican period — were almost certainly produced for sale to collectors rather than for any monetary purpose, a practice common among Chinese provincial mints settling debts or simply monetizing leftover die inventory after the dynasty ended in 1912.