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5 Cash - Guangxu Without minting authority
| Issuer | Empire of China |
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| Year | 1907 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (Traditional) / Manchu |
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| Mint | Tientsin Central Mint |
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Y#9.1 designates the variety struck without any provincial mint attribution — an anomaly in a series where nearly every other 5 Cash issue bears a specific authority mark. The Guangxu-era copper cash program was decentralized almost to dysfunction, with over a dozen provincial mints operating under inconsistent imperial oversight. A coin emerging from that system with no identified issuer suggests either a mint testing dies before full authorization or, more plausibly, an administrative breakdown in the marking process during the chaotic final years of Qing monetary reform.