5 Cash Copper

The Military Government of Szechuan Province emerged from the Wuchang Uprising of October 1911, and the province was among the most volatile theaters of the Republican revolution — Chengdu had seen its own Railway Protection Movement spark mass unrest just weeks before the dynasty fell. Provincial military administrations across China moved quickly to assert fiscal authority through coinage, often before any central monetary policy existed. Szechuan's issues from this period reflect that improvised urgency rather than any coordinated Republican monetary framework.