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3 Mithqual - Guangxu Urumchi, official San
| Issuer | Sinkiang Province |
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| Year | 1904-1907 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a dense, ornate floral and foliate scroll design filling the entire field, with five-petalled blossoms and leafy vine tendrils in high relief arranged symmetrically around a central Arabic inscription. The Arabic legend, reading اورمچى مثقال ٣ and the Hijri date, identifies the Urumchi mint, the denomination of three mithqual, and the year of issue. The intricate botanical decoration is characteristic of Xinjiang provincial silver coinage of the late Qing period, reflecting local Islamic artistic influence. A toothed or beaded border frames the design at the rim. |
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| Mintage | 1322 (1904) - ١٣٢٢ - 1323 (1905) - ١٣٢٣ - 1324 (1906) - ١٣٢۴ - 1325 (1907) - ١٣٢۵ - |
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Urumchi (then romanized as "Tihwa") operated one of several competing provincial mints in Xinjiang during the Guangxu reign, each producing coins to differing weight standards that created persistent local exchange problems. The "official San" designation distinguishes this issue from the concurrent native-script series and reflects the dual administrative structure of the province, where Han Chinese officials ran parallel bureaucratic channels alongside the indigenous system. Xinjiang's distance from Beijing meant monetary policy was enforced unevenly at best.
Y#34a specifically identifies the variant with the corrected reverse die, separated from Y#34 by subtle differences in the rosette spacing.