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5 Mithqual - Guangxu Ration coinage, with Arabic on obverse, flower at centre
| Issuer | Sinkiang Province |
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| Year | 1905 |
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| Value | 5 Mithqual (0.5) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese/Arabic |
| Obverse lettering | جج سح 餉 بش مثقال 錢 五 銀 مو شش (Translation: Silver ration / 5 Qian New silver 5 Mithqual) |
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Sinkiang's ration coinage of the early twentieth century was produced to pay Muslim troops garrisoned in Xinjiang, where Chinese-script coinage was poorly received and Arabic inscriptions carried practical legitimacy. The 5 mithqal denomination — mithqal being the local weight standard derived from Islamic monetary tradition — circulated alongside Chinese provincial issues but served an explicitly different population.
The Tihwa mint responsible for these pieces operated under chronic resource constraints, and the flower-center varieties catalogued as Y#6.5 and Y#6.6 reflect die substitutions rather than deliberate design revision.