5 Fen - Guangxu Four characters

Anhwei Province operated its own mint at Anqing beginning in the 1890s, one of several provincial mints established as the Qing central government lost its grip on monetary production. The Y#41 five-fen piece is among the smaller denominations from this facility, and provincial silver of this size circulated hard in local markets — survival in any meaningful grade is genuinely uncommon.