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5 Fen
| Issuer | Republic of China |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Weight | 1.10 g |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays two large Chinese characters denoting the denomination (伍分, Five Fen) flanked by additional characters reading the reign year of the Republic, with further inscription above indicating the issuing authority. The entire legend is set within a continuous Greek-key (meander) decorative border encircling the coin's periphery, consistent in style with the obverse. |
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| Mintage | 29 (1940) - 年九十二 - 350,000,000 |
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Issued as China's wartime economy collapsed under Japanese occupation of its most productive coastal and industrial regions, this aluminium issue reflects the Nationalist government's inability to maintain copper or bronze coinage for even the smallest denominations. The switch to aluminium was a fiscal concession, not a metallurgical preference — copper was simply too strategically valuable and too difficult to procure through Chongqing's increasingly isolated supply lines.