10 Cash

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1912, China, Fukien Province. Copper 10 Cash "Wuchan Uprising" Coin. NGC AU-58!

Denomination: 10 Cash
Region: Fukien Province
Reference: CL-FK.32, CCC-43, KM-Y#379.
Condition: Certified and graded by NGC as AU-58!
Mint Year: 1912 (the slab says 1906, which is probably a typo!)
Material: Copper
Diameter: 28mm
Weight: 7.36gm

The Wuchang Uprising was the Chinese uprising that served as the catalyst to the Xinhai Revolution, ending the Qing Dynasty – and two millennia of imperial rule – and ushering in the Republic of China. It began with the dissatisfaction of the handling of a railway crisis. The crisis then escalated to an uprising where the revolutionaries went up against Qing government officials. The uprising was then assisted by the New Army in a coup against their own authorities in the city of Wuchang, Hubei province on October 10, 1911. The Battle of Yangxia led by Huang Xing would be the major engagement in the uprising.

The Iron Blood 18-Star Flag (or simply the 18-Star Flag) was originally designed in August 1907 by a group of Chinese revolutionaries in exile in Japan, as the flag of the Progressive Association. The black and red of the flag symbolized iron and blood respectively; the nine points represented the nine ancient provinces of China, while the eighteen yellow discs ('stars' in traditional Chinese depictions) represented the eighteen provinces of China Proper at the time (the homeland of the majority Han ethnicity, thereby excluding Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet).
On 10 October 1911 the 18-Star Flag was used during the Wuchang Uprising (in modern day Wuhan, Hubei Province), and on 11 October it became the flag of the Hubei Military Government.