China Empire 20 Cash {1905-1907} 1S

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front: 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

back: 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:
巳 ᠪᠠᡩᠠᠷᠠᠩᡤᠠ ᡩᠣᠷᠣ ᡳ ᠠᠨᡳᠶᠠᡳ ᠸᡝᡳᠯᡝᡥᡝ 乙
部戶
大
幣銅
清
文十二錢制當

Translation:
Guangxu (Emperor) / Made in the Year 42
Ministry of Revenue (minting authority)
Great Qing's copper currency
Currency worth 20 Cash (Wen)

The Da-Qing Tongbi (Traditional Chinese: 大清銅幣), or the Tai-Ching-Ti-Kuo copper coin, refers to a series of copper machine-struck coins from the Qing dynasty produced from 1906 (Guangxu 31) until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911. These coins were intended to replace the earlier cast cash coins and provincial coinages, but were welcomed to mixed receptions.

Two series of Tongyuan (銅元) were simultaneously in circulation, one carried the inscription Guangxu Yuanbao (光緒元寶), which was also used for silver coins, and the other with the inscription Da-Qing Tongbi. While the Guangxu Yuanbao were often provincially issued and at first were of different weights, the Da-Qing Tongbi was introduced by the imperial government in the hopes to create a unified national currency system.

• quantity 1
• demonetized {no longer in circulation} polished Copper coin
• diameter: 32 mm
• weight: 14.6 g

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