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4 Mace - Guangxu Pattern, 'SUNGAREI', copper
| Issuer | Tientsin Mint |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Engraver(s) | Otto Bleh |
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| Obverse script | Chinese, Manchu |
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| Mintage | 1897: ND (1897) |
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This pattern was struck at the Tientsin Mint in 1897 as part of a broader effort to standardize Chinese coinage along Western lines, with the "SUNGAREI" legend identifying it as intended for Sinkiang — a province so geographically remote and monetarily chaotic that establishing a consistent coinage there had defeated successive Qing administrations for decades. The copper composition marks it as a trial rather than a serious monetary proposal; the actual Sinkiang issues of the period were struck in red copper and cash formats that bore no resemblance to this piece.
Fewer than a handful of examples are documented.