½ Jiao / 5 Cents

Before the 1980s, there were few records of such coins. After that, they were only found in the northeastern part of Guangxi. Currently, the number of unearthed coins is around 500. Based on historical records and actual unearthed conditions, this kind of coin should have been produced by the Wuzhou Mint and minted by warlords between 1923 and 1925. Most of them are copper-core with nickel and the quality of the coins cast by warlords is often not guaranteed. Moreover, the coins discovered so far are all unearthed, so they are often in very poor condition. It is usually manifested as environmental pollution, peeling and stripe corrosion.

Coin design copy from N# 315191 . However, the text is bolder, the lines of the wheat ears are harder, the leaf patterns are shallower, the decorative flowers are more slender, and the background pattern of the "5" is denser. Another version was also imitated by warlords, but the location was not Kwangsi.

During the actual examination, many coins, including the wheat ears engraved on the legend, were very faint or even absent. However, due to the manufacturing process, it was difficult to determine whether they belonged to the same design.

Finally, two examples are provided: