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5 Fen - Guangxu Four characters
| Issuer | Chekiang Province |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Value | 5 Fen (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Four large Chinese ideograms arranged vertically and horizontally occupy the central field, reading top to bottom and right to left, flanked by Manchu script characters at the centre. The entire central design is encircled by a ring of additional Chinese ideograms forming the provincial and reign-period legend. The composition reflects the standard layout of late Qing provincial coinage, combining both Chinese and Manchu scripts in keeping with imperial bilingual convention. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Chekiang (Zhejiang) was among the first provincial mints to resume silver fractional coinage under the Guangxu Emperor following the Qing court's authorization of provincial minting in the 1880s and 1890s. The Y#51 series is distinguished by a four-character obverse inscription rather than the more common six-character provincial variants, a deliberate simplification whose administrative origin remains debated among specialists.
Surviving examples in collectible condition are scarcer than mintage logic would suggest — small-denomination silver fractions saw hard daily use in local markets and rarely survived intact.