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50 Cash Restrike
| Issuer | People's Republic of China |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field features four Chinese ideograms arranged in a cruciform reading pattern (top to bottom, right to left), flanked by a floral motif at centre. The entire design is encircled by an outer legend composed of additional Chinese ideograms in Regular script, forming a continuous border inscription. The legends read 造府政軍湖幣銅北文十五錢制當, referencing the Hubei Military Government Mint authority and denomination. The overall layout follows a traditional square-within-circle compositional style derived from classical Chinese cash coin design. |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a single large Chinese ideogram rendered in archaic Seal script (篆書), enclosed within a decorative ring of small circles forming an inner border. Above the central design, an outer legend in Regular script (楷書) provides the dating inscription referencing the ninth year of the Republic of China. The contrasting use of Seal script for the central character and Regular script for the surrounding legend is characteristic of Republican-era Chinese coin design. The overall composition is clean and well-centred, with the circular pellet border providing clear visual separation between the central motif and the outer legend. |
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These restrikes were produced by the People's Bank of China for collector distribution rather than circulation, a practice that became common in the 1980s as China began cultivating a domestic and international numismatic market. Restrikes of this denomination draw on Republican-era cash coin designs, lending them an air of historical weight they did not earn through actual use.
Authentication matters here: genuine restrikes carry consistent die characteristics absent from the numerous privately struck imitations that flooded the market almost immediately after official issues appeared.