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5 Mithqual - Guangxu Ration coinage, with Arabic on obverse, with one bat, rotated legend
| Uitgever | Sinkiang Province |
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| Jaar | 1905 |
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| Vorm | Round |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | جج سح 餉 بش مثقال 錢 五 銀 مو شش (Translation: Silver ration / 5 Qian New silver 5 Mithqual) |
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| Rand | Reeded |
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Sinkiang's ration coinage was never intended for general commerce. These pieces were struck to pay Muslim troops and officials in the far west, where Chinese script carried little cultural authority and Arabic lent the coins legitimacy among a Turkic-speaking population deeply skeptical of Qing administration. The rotated legend variant on this type reflects the chaotic, semi-autonomous conditions under which the Urumqi and Kashgar mints operated — dies were cut locally by craftsmen with no standardized orientation protocol, producing positional varieties that were never planned and never corrected.
The single bat distinguishes this from the more common multi-bat issues, a difference significant enough to matter at auction but easy to miss in a bulk lot.