China Gold 10 Dollar Yuan Shikai Flying Dragon Solid Gold 中華帝國 袁世凯 飛龍 金幣
China Gold 10 Dollar 中華帝國
for the installation of Yuan as Emperor Hung Hsien
Yuan Shikai, 1916

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Material: Solid Pure Gold; Weight: 8.5 grams; Size: 21.7 mm
Obverse: YUAN SHIKAI military and official of the QING dynasty as well as the newly born Republic of China. Self proclaimed emperor in 1916.
 
Reverse: 國帝華中 for the installation of Yuan as Emperor Hung Hsien
Flying Dragon
元紀憲洪
圓 拾 means ten dollar.
Edge: Reeded
Engraver: Luigi Giorgi
 
The Yuan Shikai "dollar" issued for the first time in 1914, became a dominant coin type of the Republic of China. Yuan Shikai (16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916) was a Chinese general, politician and "emperor", famous for his influence during the late Qing Dynasty, his role in the events leading up to the abdication of the last Qing Emperor, his autocratic rule as the first President of the Republic of China, and his short-lived attempt to restore monarchy in China, with himself as the Hongxian Emperor (simplified Chinese: 洪宪皇帝; traditional Chinese: 洪憲皇帝; pinyin: Hóngxiàn Huángdì).
Yuan Shih Kai (1859AD-1916AD) was born in Hsiang-Cheng of Honan Province in the 9th year of the Hsien Fung reign. In 1882, he followed the commander of Anhui army, Wu Chang-Ch'ing went to Korea to help the Korean king train a new imperial army. In 1884, he was recalled back to China. By the help of Li Hung-chang , he became a 3rd-grade official in charge of training a modern army at Hsiao-Chan near Tientsin in 1895. Later, he was promoted to the position of assistant minister in charged of military training, as he pretended to support institutional reforms. In 1897, he promoted as the governor of Shantung province, and two years later he was promoted again to be the governor of Chihli province. In 1901 he promoted as the minister of Peiyang, gradually becoming the leader of the Peiyang warlords, as he won the trust of Empress Dowager Szu Hsi. Yuan took part in the suppression of Boxers insurgent in 1900. In 1907, Yuan was summoned to the court to became a grand minister of the Privy Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs. After Dowager Empress died, he was stripped of all his offices in 1909.
 
 
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