5 Cash - Guangxu An-hwei

Anhwei Province's copper cash issues of the early 1900s emerged from a broader Qing imperial push to modernize provincial minting, but Anhwei's operation was notoriously inconsistent — the provincial mint struggled with equipment reliability and funding throughout its short operational window. Y#35 is among the more elusive of the Anhwei machine-struck issues, with surviving examples frequently showing uneven strikes attributable to the mint's mechanical difficulties rather than die fatigue.