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| Uitgever | Hupeh Military Government |
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| Jaar | 1912-1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Central field displays four large Chinese characters arranged in a cross pattern reading 湖 (Hupeh), 銅 (Copper), 幣 (Currency), 北 (North), with a small floral rosette at the centre. An inner dotted border separates the central motif from the surrounding legend. The outer legend, read clockwise from the upper right, bears the inscription 軍政府造湖北銅幣制當錢五十文, identifying the issuing Military Government of Hupeh and the denomination of 50 Cash. The design is entirely in Chinese characters with no figurative imagery, executed in bold relief against a plain field. |
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| Schrift keerzijde | Chinese |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The Hupeh Military Government came to power following the Wuchang Uprising of October 1911 — the revolt that effectively ended the Qing dynasty. Cash-denominated brass coinage from this authority occupied an awkward transitional space: the old string-cash system was functionally dead, but the new Republic had not yet established uniform monetary infrastructure across the provinces. Hupeh issued these pieces partly to fill that vacuum and partly to assert administrative legitimacy in a period when rival military factions were doing the same thing with their own dies.
The issuing window of 1912–1918 spans the warlord fragmentation that followed Yuan Shikai's consolidation attempts.