China (1911) 10 cash Y-27
This specimen was lot 52193 in Stack's Bowers Hong Kong auction (Hong Kong, April 2021), where it sold for $1,860. The catalog description[1] noted, " CHINA. 10 Cash, Year 3 (1911). PCGS MS-63 Red Brown Gold Shield. Struck in the final year of the Empire at the Tientsin Mint, while Mr. L. Giorgi was chief designer. Woodward calls the reverse "an entirely new and pleasing design". This example features handsome brown with hints of mint red remaining and no heavy marks." This type is dated by the two characters at 3 and 9 o'clock on the reverse, corresponding to the Chinese sixty year cyclical calendar. It is an example of the standard unified general coinage, from the Tientsin mint, and was meant to offer a unified alternative to the proliferation of provincial mint coins. The Tientsin mint also struck two, five and twenty cash, of which the ten cash was the most popular.
Recorded mintage: 95,585,000, including brass varieties.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: CL-HB.96; KM-Y27; CCC-637; Duan-2392; W-289 (S-12).
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Kann, Eduard. Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Coins, Vol. 1 of 3. Bronx, NY: Ishi Press International, 2006.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The April 2021 Hong Kong Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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