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5 Mithqual - Guangxu Ration coinage, with Arabic on reverse
| Issuer | Sinkiang Province |
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| Year | 1905 |
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| Diameter | 34 mm |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
| Obverse lettering | 餉 錢 五 銀 (Translation: Silver ration / 5 Qian) |
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Sinkiang's ration coinage was a direct response to the chronic shortage of standard-weight silver in the province's western districts, where trade with Russian Turkestan and the khanates demanded denominations calibrated to local weight systems rather than the tael standards used elsewhere in Qing China. The mithqual — a weight unit inherited from Islamic central Asia — was retained precisely because merchants in Kashgar and Yarkand refused coins they couldn't reconcile with their own scales.
The Arabic reverse distinguishes this subtype within the Y#6 series, marking issues intended specifically for the Muslim Uyghur population of the Tarim Basin. Multiple die varieties exist across the ration coinage issues, and attribution between them frequently hinges on minor calligraphic differences in the Arabic inscription.