![]() This undated coin comes from a 1899 issue made in the Nanking mint. Ī Kiang Nan coin of 3 mace and 6 candareens inscribed as a so-called 'prowing' coin was sold for $ 1.2M from a lower estimate of $ 300K by Stack's Bowers on May 4, 2022, lot 51040. In the sam sale, the half dollar of same period and same province graded MS-67 was sold for $ 106K, lot 30073 and the 1899 half dollar 'Kiang Nan Province' graded MS-62-Prooflike for $ 310K, lot 30088. It is graded SP-63 by PCGS.Ī 'dragon dollar' 1898-1899 'Cheh-Kiang Province' graded MS-66 by NGC was sold for $ 440K by Heritage on J, lot 30074. Curiously the provincial coinage of American origin was to survive this xenophobic phase.Īn undated Shen-Si Province silver pattern coin of 1898 of 3 mace and 6 candareens was sold for $ 600K by Stack's Bowers on October 7-8, 2021, lot 23062. ![]() These events culminated in 1899 in the Boxer wars. ![]() Also in 1898 the Guangxu emperor attempted to start an ambitious reform program which was halted by a military coup organized by Cixi. Some other provinces immediately follow Szechuen with the same conception. The other side is inscribed in Chinese characters. The emitting province is indicated on the same side which is centered on the effigy of a dragon. That Chinese dollar is marked in English letters 7 mace and 2 candareens while the half dollar is 3 mace and 6 candareens. The word dollar does not appear, replaced by the weight in the units of the Chinese decimal system, mace and candareen, subdivisions of the tael. The material is sent without delay and the transfer of technology is successfully carried out in 1898 in Szechuen to produce silver coins and the small brass coin, the tsen colloquially named cash.įor silver the biggest denomination is the yuan, translated as dollar in English. In 1897 the American company Ferracute is awarded a contract to supply and install coin presses in the Chinese provinces at the request of the imperial government. However he tries to modernize China on the Meiji model. The young Guangxu Emperor was only a puppet to Empress Dowager Cixi. The Sino-Japanese war for the control of Korea ends in April 1895 in a military and economic disaster for the Qing dynasty, more threatened than ever by foreign intrusions.
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