5 Fen Pattern

Szechuan Province in the mid-1920s operated in near-constant tension between warlord factions competing for control of the region, and coinage proposals from this period frequently never advanced beyond pattern stage. Kann 824 is one such casualty — struck as a trial piece rather than an approved issue, it reflects the provisional monetary ambitions of a provincial administration that lacked the political stability to see a circulating series through.

Nickel patterns from Szechuan are notably scarce in any form. The Chengdu mint's output during this period was irregular at best.