½ Jiao

Features

Issuer Yunnan Province (Chinese provinces)
Period Province of the Republic of China (1912-1949)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 12 (1923)
Calendar Chinese republican
Value ½ Jiao (0.05)
Currency Yuan (1908-1949)
Composition Copper-nickel
Weight 2.90 g
Diameter 16 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
36554
References Y# 485
Richard S. Yeoman, Arthur L. Friedberg; 2007. A Catalog of Modern World Coins : 1850-1964 (14th edition). Whitman Publishing Company, Atlanta, United States.
And 1 more volumes.

Obverse

Four Chinese ideograms read top to bottom, right to left, all surrounded by more ideograms.

Lettering:
年二十國民華中

幣鎳

造省南雲

Translation:
Year 12 of the Republic of China
1/2 Jiao / Nickel coin
Made in Yunnan Province

Reverse

Flag surrounded by English legend.

Lettering:
YUN-NAN PROVINCE
FIVE CENTS

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
12 (1923)  年二十

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