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| Emittent | Qing Dynasty Imperial Mint, Aksu |
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| Jahr | 1851-1861 |
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| Material | Copper |
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| Reversbeschreibung | Cast reverse displaying a central square perforation with a raised square collar. Three Chinese characters are positioned around the hole: 當 (Dang, meaning 'worth') appears above and 五 (Wu, meaning 'five') below, denoting the denomination of five cash. To the left of the central hole, a Manchu script legend reads 'Aqsu', identifying the issuing mint; to the right, the corresponding Old Uyghur (Chagatai) script rendering of 'Aqsu' appears, providing a trilingual mint identification characteristic of Qing-period Xinjiang coinage. The reverse field is plain with a raised outer rim. |
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| Prägestätte | Aksu Mint (Xinjiang) |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
The Aksu mint, operating in what is now Xinjiang, was one of several frontier outposts the Qing crown maintained to supply coinage to a region it had only consolidated control over in the 1750s. During the Xianfeng reign, the dynasty was hemorrhaging resources on multiple fronts simultaneously — the Taiping Rebellion in the south, the Nian Rebellion in the north, and mounting pressure from European powers — which drove repeated debasements and denomination inflations across all mints. Five-cash pieces were among the emergency multiples introduced precisely because the standard single-cash had become economically trivial.
Aksu output from this period is notably inconsistent in fabric, a direct consequence of irregular copper supplies along strained Central Asian supply routes.