50 Fen - Guangxu Eight characters

Anhwei's provincial mint was a relative latecomer to the machine-struck silver coinage movement that swept China's provinces in the 1890s, and its output was correspondingly brief. The eight-character reverse varieties cataloged under Y#44.1 and Y#44.2 differ in the arrangement of Manchu and Chinese characters, a distinction that likely reflects die replacement rather than deliberate policy — the province had neither the minting tradition nor the institutional continuity of Guangdong or Hubei.

Anhwei's mint ceased operations before 1900, leaving the total provincial silver output modest by any measure.