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10 Cash - Guangxu With minting authority; redesigned dragon; Hunan type; type 2

Features

Issuer Empire of China
Emperor Qing dynasty › Guangxu (光緒帝) (1875-1908)
Type Standard circulation coins
Year 43 (1906)
Calendar Chinese cyclical (cycle starting in 1864)
Value 10 Cash (0.01)
Currency Yuan (1903-1912)
Composition Copper
Weight 6.81 g
Diameter 28 mm
Thickness 1.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
243414
References Y# 10h.6
Richard Sperry Yeoman. R. S. Yeoman's Modern & Current World Coins (16 volumes).

Obverse

Four Chinese ideograms read top to bottom, right to left, with Manchu characters above and more ideograms around.

Scripts: Chinese (traditional, regular script), Mongolian / Manchu

Lettering:
午 ᠪᠠᡩᠠᠷᠠᠩᡤᠠ ᡩᠣᠷᠣ ᡳ ᠠᠨᡳᠶᠠᡳ ᠸᡝᡳᠯᡝᡥᡝ 丙
部戶

幣湘銅

文十錢制當

Translation:
Guangxu (Emperor) / Made in the Year 43
Ministry of Revenue (minting authority)
Great Qing's copper currency / Hunan (mint)
Currency worth 10 Cash (Wen)

Reverse

Dragon with pearl at centre with Chinese ideograms above and English legend below.

Scripts: Chinese (traditional, regular script), Latin

Lettering:
造年緒光
TAI-CHING-TI-KUO COPPER COIN

Translation:
Made in the reign of Guangxu (Emperor)
Copper coin of the Great Qing Empire

Edge

Plain

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
43 (1906) 湘 午丙: Y#10h.6: Hunan Mint

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