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5 Cash - Guangxu
| Issuer | Szechuan Province |
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| Year | 1903-1904 |
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| Value | 5 Cash (0.005) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese, Mongolian / Manchu |
| Obverse lettering | 造省川四 ᠶᡠᠸᠠᠨ ᠪᠣᠣ 光 寶 元 緒 五當 (Translation: Made in Szechuan Province Yuanbao (Original currency) Guangxu (Emperor) / Yuanbao (Original currency) Worth 5 (Cash)) |
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Szechuan's provincial mint at Chengdu was among the more erratic operators in the late Qing machine-struck copper program, and the 1903–1904 five-cash issues reflect that inconsistency. The province had only recently converted from cast cash production, and quality control across this type varies considerably — not as generic grading caution, but because the Chengdu facility changed roller and die specifications mid-run as it worked out mechanical problems with imported equipment.
Y#228 is one of the scarcer Szechuan denominational entries from this period, with surviving examples disproportionately concentrated in lower circulated grades, suggesting genuine heavy use in a province whose cash economy was still absorbing machine-struck coinage into existing monetary habits.