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50 Fen - Guangxu Circled dragon
| Issuer | Kiangnan Province |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Weight | 13.20 g |
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| Obverse description | At centre, four large Chinese ideograms arranged in a cruciform pattern read top to bottom and right to left, flanked by Manchu script characters in the central field. The inner legend is encircled by an outer band of additional Chinese ideograms denoting the province name, reign title, and weight denomination. The overall layout follows the traditional Chinese imperial coin format adapted for milled silver coinage of the late Qing dynasty. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Kiangnan's provincial mint was established at Shanghai in 1897 with machinery imported from the Birmingham Mint, and the circled dragon coinage followed almost immediately as the province scrambled to assert monetary independence from both Beijing's erratic central issues and the flood of foreign trade dollars dominating Yangtze valley commerce. The 1898 issues are among the earliest from the facility and show occasional die alignment inconsistencies attributable to the mint's operators still mastering the new equipment.
Y#144 encompasses several die varieties distinguished by the number of rosettes and the spacing of border dentils — differences that matter considerably to specialists working this series.