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50 Cash Support the Republic, brass
| Issuer | Yunnan Province |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Three-quarter facing bust of Tang Jiyao, military governor of Yunnan, turned slightly to the left, positioned in the upper central field. A decorative wreath appears below the portrait, while four Chinese characters arranged in two columns are inscribed above, reading '紀念銅幣' (Commemorative Copper Coin). The overall design is rendered in a formal, portrait-medallic style characteristic of early Republican Chinese provincial coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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Yunnan's Republican-era cash issues emerged from a province that had functioned with considerable autonomy since the 1911 revolution, and the "Support the Republic" inscription was as much a political declaration as a monetary one — Yunnan military governors used coinage to signal loyalty or defiance toward whoever held Beijing at a given moment. By 1919, the province was effectively under the control of Tang Jiyao, whose warlord administration maintained its own financial infrastructure largely independent of the nominally national government.
Brass was chosen over copper partly due to local resource availability in Yunnan's mining-rich interior.