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5 Cash - Guangxu Mule
| Issuer | Fukien Province |
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| Year | 1901-1903 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the same design as the obverse, consistent with the mule nature of this pattern piece, featuring the coiled Imperial dragon in high relief at center surrounded by flame and cloud motifs within a beaded inner border. The legend 'FOO-KIEN' arcs across the upper field and '5 CASH' appears along the lower field in Latin characters. Five-pointed stars flank the denomination inscription on both sides. The identical die usage on both faces is the defining characteristic of this mule pattern. |
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| Mint | Fuzhou Mint (Foochow Mint) |
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A mule in the Fukien machine-struck cash series — almost certainly the product of a die pairing error at the Foochow mint during a period when the province was running multiple denominations simultaneously. The Qing provincial mints of this era operated with limited oversight from Beijing, and clerical or mechanical mismatches between obverse and reverse dies were rarely caught before a run had already commenced. Pn10 designation places this firmly in pattern or trial territory, though the line between sanctioned trial and production accident at Foochow is not always clean.