The Guangxu Yuanbao was one of the currencies in circulation during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Liangguang, took the lead in introducing British minting machines to mint silver and copper dollars, and then the provinces followed suit. A total of nineteen provincial bureaus cast, except for the central household department, the copper dollars cast by local provinces, all of which engraved the name of the province on the upper edge of its front. ....................
This "Guangxu Yuanbao Hubu Twenty Texts" is one of the currencies in circulation during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and the Hubu Guangxu Yuanbao was commonly used throughout the country at that time. The four characters of "Guangxu Yuanbao" in Chinese are cast in the bead circle on the front, the upper ring is Manchu, the lower ring book is "Twenty Texts for Making Money", and the left and right are divided into "households" and "ministries" and plum blossom stars; on the back is the dragon figure, and the outer edge is "HU POO" and "20CASH" English characters, and the dragon is vivid and extremely majestic. ....................
The copper coin minting process is exquisite, the handwriting is profoundly engraved, the dragon pattern carving is exquisite, the sense of relief is strong, the mirror surface is smooth and smooth, the line of conformity of the ornamentation is very clear, the word mouth, grain and edge teeth are deep, it is completely the sample style of foreign minting, the coin surface is thick and old-fashioned, the color is natural, full of traces of age and a strong sense of historical precipitation, very ornamental, but also very collectible. ....................
Among all the Longyang pattern coins in China, the currency has the most exquisite craftsmanship, the most perfect carving, and the strongest sense of relief. As a currency ready for circulation, its secret anti-counterfeiting is unmatched by the ancients and unmatched. So far, there is no one to look forward to in many speculative coinage, imitation writing and minting!