Item number: A1955

Year: AD 1905 (AH 1322)

Material: Silver

Size: 23.9 x 23.8 x 1.6 mm

Weight: 6.7 g

Manufactured by: Dihua Bureau Mint

Provenance: Da Chen Stamps and Coins Collection 2015

This is a Guangxu Silver Coin minted in AD 1905 (Guangxu 31st year) in Dihua (modern-day Ürümqi), the capital of Xinjiang Province. It was modelled after those produced in Kashgar, a major oasis city in southern Xinjiang. The series comprised four denominations: One Mace, Two Mace, Three Mace, and Five Mace.

The coin was struck using traditional handcrafted methods. On the obverse, three vertical lines of Chinese characters are inscribed from right to left, reading Dihua (迪化), Guangxu Silver Coin (光緒銀圓), and Three Mace (三錢), respectively.

The reverse is adorned with a floral pattern composed of an eleven-petalled flower surrounded by seven five-petalled flowers. At the centre, the denomination Three Mace and the mint location Ürümqi are inscribed in Chagatai script, arranged vertically from top to bottom. Interspersed within the inscription is the Persian numeral “۱۳۲۲” (1322), indicating the coin’s minting year in the Islamic calendar.

In AD 1888 (Guangxu 14th year), Li Zongbin, then Governor of Kashgar, ordered the candidate magistrate Luo Zhengxiang to conduct trial minting of silver coins. Following their issuance, these coins were well received and widely accepted in the market. Consequently, in AD 1893, Aksu, another city in southern Xinjiang, also began producing similar coins. In AD 1902, under the directive of Pan Xiaosu, then Governor of Xinjiang, the provincial capital Dihua also commenced the minting of Guangxu Silver Coins. This continued until AD 1907 when traditional methods were replaced by mechanised minting techniques.

物件編號: A1955

年代: 公元 1905 年 (回曆 1322 年)

材質: 銀

尺寸: 23.9 x 23.8 x 1.6 mm

重量: 6.7 g

製造地: 迪化鑄造局

來源: 大城郵幣社 2015

這是一枚公元1905年 (光緒31年)，作為新疆省會的迪化(烏魯木齊) 仿效南疆綠洲大城喀什所鑄造的「光緒銀圓」，總共有壹錢、貳錢、參錢和伍錢，共計四種面額。

錢幣以傳統的手工方式打鑄，錢幣正面有三行直書的漢字，從右至左分別為「迪化」、「光緒銀圓」和「三錢」字樣。

背面周圍以一朵十一瓣花和七朵五瓣花組成的花草紋飾作為裝飾，正中央以察合台文從上而下，依序標示面額「三錢」和鑄造地點「烏魯木齊」，並且穿插著波斯數字「۱۳۲۲」(1322)，即錢幣鑄造的回曆年份。

公元1888年(光緒14年)，時任喀什道員的李宗賓命令候補知縣羅正湘試鑄銀圓，發行後得到市場的接受和好評。因此公元1893年，同樣地處於南疆的阿克蘇也開始仿鑄。公元1902年，省會迪化在時任新疆巡撫潘效蘇的命令下，也開始鑄造光緒銀圓，直到後續公元1907年以機械鑄幣的工法取代為止。