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20 Fen - Xuantong Type 2
| Issuer | Manchurian Provinces |
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| Year | 1911 |
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| Thickness | 1.4 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 造省三東 宣 寶 ᠶᡠᠸᠠᠨ ᡩᠠᡳᠴᡳᠩ ᠪᠣᠣ 元 統 釐四分四錢一平庫 (Translation: Made in the Three East Provinces Xuantong (Emperor) / Yuanbao (Original currency) Qing (dynasty) / Yuanbao (Original currency) Worth 1 Mace and 4.4 Candareens (weight)) |
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| Reverse lettering | MANCHURIAN PROVIENCES 1 MACE AND 4.4 CANDAREENS |
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The Manchurian provincial coinage of the late Qing was produced under a separate administrative and monetary framework from the central government's issues, reflecting Beijing's tenuous grip on the northeastern frontier. The three Manchurian provinces — Fengtian, Jilin, and Heilongjiang — operated their own mint at Fengtian (modern Shenyang), which had been modernized with imported machinery in the 1890s partly to counter the flood of foreign silver circulating across the Russian and Japanese borders.
Xuantong's reign lasted barely three years before abdication in February 1912, making third-year dated provincial issues effectively final-year production pieces struck as the dynasty was collapsing.