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50 Cash Ho-nan, copper
| Issuer | Honan Province |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Cash (0.05) |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
| Obverse lettering | 中華民國 當十五銅元 (Translation: Republic of China / Worth 50 Cash Copper coin) |
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Honan Province's 50 Cash issues of this period were produced against a backdrop of near-total monetary chaos in central China, with provincial warlord governments running mints as revenue engines rather than monetary infrastructure. The result was rampant overproduction and deliberate debasement — 50 Cash pieces flooded local markets so aggressively that their actual purchasing power collapsed well below face value within years of issue.
Y#394 is known with multiple die varieties, a predictable consequence of the mint operating under minimal quality controls during this period.