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5 Fen - Guangxu Pattern
| Issuer | Chekiang Province |
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| Year | 1902 |
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| Currency | Yuan (1896-1940) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears four large Chinese ideograms arranged top to bottom and right to left, flanked by Manchu script characters in the centre. The inscription identifies the issuing province (Chekiang) and the reign title (Guangxu), with the denomination expressed as 3.6 Candareens in weight. A surrounding border of additional Chinese ideograms frames the entire central design, presenting the full imperial mint attribution in the traditional format of late Qing provincial coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | CHE-KIANG PROVINCE 3.6 CANDAREENS |
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Chekiang (Zhejiang) was among the provincial mints experimenting with small silver subsidiary coinage in the early 1900s, attempting to rationalize a currency system badly fragmented by regional tael standards and foreign trade dollars. This piece is a pattern — it never entered circulation — and the Kann reference places it firmly in the exploratory issues that preceded any formal provincial coinage authorization. The Beijing central government's resistance to provincial silver standardization meant most such patterns died exactly here: as struck specimens in a drawer.