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5 Fen - Guangxu
| Issuer | Kirin Province |
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| Year | 1898-1908 |
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| Value | 5 Fen (0.05) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Reverse description | At center, a sinuous Chinese dragon is depicted in high relief, facing forward with a flaming pearl at its center. An English legend arcs above and below the dragon along the coin's rim, identifying the province of issue and the denomination in candareens. Manchu script characters flank the dragon to the left and right in the field, identifying the issuing empire. The design follows the standard format established for Qing provincial dragon coinage of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
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Kirin Province operated one of the more chaotic mint histories in late Qing China. The provincial mint at Jilin city opened in 1884 and struggled chronologically with inconsistent silver supplies drawn from local trade flows rather than centralized bullion — a persistent problem that contributed to irregular production runs across the entire Guangxu period. The decade-long date range on this type reflects interrupted rather than continuous output.
Y#179 at this denomination is notably elusive in any grade, almost certainly due to low survival rather than low original mintage.