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30 Cash - Guangxu Pattern, type 1, brass
| Issuer | Szechuan Province |
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| Year | 1904 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1897-1949) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese, Mongolian / Manchu |
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| Reverse description | A writhing dragon is depicted at centre, shown in profile with scales rendered in fine detail, clutching or pursuing a flaming pearl. A stylised mountain or wave motif appears below the dragon in the lower field. The entire design is encircled by an English-language legend along the periphery identifying the province and denomination. The composition follows the standard late Qing imperial dragon type used on provincial cash coinage of the period. |
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Szechuan's 1904 pattern coinage emerged from the Qing government's broader push to rationalize provincial minting following the catastrophic monetary fragmentation exposed by the Boxer Uprising. The 30 cash denomination was experimental — no province had successfully circulated a coin of that value, and the denomination was almost certainly abandoned before any serious production run was authorized.
KM#Pn5 is one of several brass trial strikes from the Chengdu mint that year, each testing different denomination multiples. Pattern survivorship from Szechuan is notoriously thin; most known examples trace back to a handful of original Chinese government collections dispersed in the mid-twentieth century.