5 Cash - Guangxu Copper

Fukien's copper cash issues of this period were minted at the Foochow Arsenal, a facility better known for arms production than coinage. The province was among the later adopters of machine-struck copper in China's decentralized modernization push, and output was inconsistent enough that die quality varies considerably across the run.

Y#99 specifically attributes this type to the Foochow mint's transitional period before provincial minting authority was increasingly absorbed into broader Qing monetary reforms after 1905.