Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) dollar coin,
- China, Yunnan Province, 1912
- Obverse Image: Left facing portrait of Sun Yat Sen in a pearled circle with text above and below, flowered foliage to the right and left.
- Obverse Text: Romanization: CHUNG / HUA / MIN / KUO / NIEN / ?/ ? / ? (Translation: Republic of China, Commemorative coin of the birth of the state.)
- Reverse Image: Two Orthodox characters (I YUAN) in the center of a pearled circle with foliage and English text surrounding.
- Reverse Text: THE / REPUBLIC / OF / CHINA / I / YUAN / ONE / DOLLAR
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1912
- Physical Description
- copper (overall material)
- Object Name
- coin
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