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5 Mithqual - Guangxu Urumchi, official Wu
| Issuer | Sinkiang Province |
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| Year | 1905-1907 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Urumchi's official mint operated under the direct authority of the provincial government rather than the Board of Revenue in Beijing, giving Sinkiang's coinage a degree of fiscal autonomy unusual for a late Qing frontier province. The "Wu" designation identifies this piece as struck at the Wu Bureau — one of several competing minting operations active in the region during the Guangxu period, each producing coins that circulated alongside Russian silver and a patchwork of locally cast cash. Russian trade roubles dominated commerce along the Silk Road corridors at this time, and these issues were partly a deliberate assertion of Chinese monetary authority in a region Beijing was anxious not to lose.