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50 Fen - Guangxu Pattern, silver
| Issuer | Szechuan Province |
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| Year | 1897 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears four Chinese ideograms arranged to be read top to bottom, right to left, flanking a central cluster of Manchu script characters. The entire central device is encircled by an outer ring of additional Chinese ideograms forming the full provincial and reign-era inscription. The legends collectively identify the issuing province of Szechuan, the Guangxu Emperor's reign title, and the denomination expressed as three mace and six candareens. The design is contained within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Reeded. |
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Szechuan's 1897 pattern coinage emerged from the province's attempt to establish its own mechanized mint, part of the broader push by provincial authorities in the 1890s to modernize currency production independently of Beijing. Patterns from this mint are exceptionally rare precisely because the provincial program never achieved sustained production — the central government's resistance to autonomous provincial minting kept most issues at the trial or pattern stage.
The "var." designation against KM#Pn13 signals a die or specification difference not fully catalogued in standard references. Szechuan pattern variants from this period remain incompletely attributed, and examples occasionally surface with minor legend or border differences that precede formal classification.