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Auction: CSS36 - Banknotes, Bonds & Shares and Coins of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 1515

China, Sinkiang Province / Chinese Turkestan, under Chinese Administration (1876-81), 5-Fen (½-Miscal), 1.76g, no mint name (probably Kashgar), dated AH1292 , Uigur inscription in Arabic, kangshui ning (ku)mush fuli (silver coin of (emperor) Guangxu) within ornamental border, rev. niyan j'i u fen, in Manchu (possibly year?, value 5-Fen), within ornamental border (Nastich & Schuster E19; Kann 1966; WS 1147; KM. Y7.27), attractive dark tone in fields, good very fine, extremely rare

The Chinese commenced the re-conquest of Sinkiang (Xinjiang) in 1876. Ya'qub Beg died in 1877 and the Chinese, based at Kuche, were ordered to start producing silver coins. These were modelled on Ya'qub Beg's silver Tanga, but with the denomination 5-Fung / Fen. Many of them have both an Uighur inscription besh fung (5-fung) and the Chinese equivalent wu fen (5-Fen).
Four different types were struck between 1876 and 1881, Sinkiang having been divided into two administrative areas: the south-western with its capital at Kashgar, which included the mints of Khotan, Yarkland and Yangi Hisar, and the northern province, based around Kuche, with a mint at Aksu.

provenance
ex. Nicholas Rhodes Collection



新疆錢幣，GVF，極罕

Sold for
HK$9,000