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5 Mace - Guangxu Pattern, Hu Poo, silver
| Issuer | Hu Poo (Board of Revenue Mint, Beijing) |
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| Year | 1903 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears four large Chinese ideograms arranged in a cruciform reading pattern, flanked by Manchu script characters above. Below the central ideograms, additional Chinese characters denote the issuing authority (Board of Revenue) and the denomination (Five Mace). The legends are rendered in a formal regular script style appropriate to imperial Chinese coinage of the late Qing period. A beaded inner border frames the inscriptions, with a plain outer border completing the obverse design. |
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| Obverse lettering | ᠪᠠᡩᠠᡵᠠᠩᡤᠠ ᡩᠣᡵᠣ ᠶᡠᠸᠠᠨ ᠪᠣᠣ 光 寶元 緒 部戶 錢五平庫 (Translation: Guangxu (Emperor) / Yuanbao (Original currency) Board of Revenue (minting authority) Worth 5 Mace (Qian)) |
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The Hu Poo Mint in Beijing produced this pattern as part of a broader push by the Qing central government to assert control over silver coinage, which had been dominated for decades by the provincial mints — particularly Guangdong. The Board of Revenue had long resented that monetary authority effectively resided in the provinces, and the 1903 pattern series was a direct attempt to establish a centrally-issued standard.
The effort failed. Provincial minting interests proved too entrenched, and no central mint coinage entered mass circulation under Guangxu. L&M#2 is among the rarest listings in the Long & Mariacher reference.