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Replica - 1 Cash Guangxu
| Issuer | Qing Dynasty |
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| Type | Contemporary counterfeit coin |
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| Obverse description | Copper cash coin of the traditional Chinese round form pierced by a central square hole, the field displaying four Chinese characters arranged in cruciform fashion around the aperture: 光 (Guāng) above, 緒 (Xù) below, 通 (Tōng) to the right, and 寶 (Bǎo) to the left, together reading 光緒通寶 (Guangxu Tongbao), meaning 'current money of the Guangxu reign'. The characters are rendered in a shallow, somewhat weakly struck relief consistent with a contemporary imitation, with a plain flat field and no rim decoration. |
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| Reverse script | Mongolian / Manchu |
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Nothing here warrants elaboration. This is a modern replica of a Guangxu-era cash coin, and the original it imitates was itself one of the most mass-produced denominations in Chinese monetary history — billions cast across dozens of provincial mints between 1875 and 1908, with quality and alloy varying wildly by source.