Size 10.1 x 10.6 mm, weight 0.85g | |
Size 10.1 x 10.0 mm, weight 0.61g | |
Size 8.6 x 9.1 mm, weight 0.50g | |
Size 8.6 x 8.7 mm, weight 0.65g | |
Size 7.8 x 8.0 mm, weight 0.61g | |
Size 7.8 x 8.1 mm, weight 0.60g | |
Size 7.1 x 8.4 mm, weight 0.39g | |
Size 6.4 x 7.0 mm, weight 0.26g | |
Size 6.3 x 6.6 mm, weight 0.30g | |
Size 5.6 x 5.6 mm, weight 0.20g |
General style, inscriptions, flan edges and other features show that the pieces must have been made quite recently.
These silver pieces with Turkish legends are hand-struck, with their weight ranging from 5 candarins to 1 mace or more, can be found in many varieties exists around Kuang-Hsu period (1874-1908) in Yarkand, Yanghissar, Kashgar, Aksu...all together 8 southern cities in Xinjiang. Some of them have been reported in some major Chinese coins catelogues, such as the one written by Mr. Lin Kuo Min. According to those similar ones having been listed, some are purely in Turkish, some are mingled with Chinese, identify themselves as "Kuang-Hsu Silver Coin", and/or their weight, some of them carry a square in the center without punch through, which is known as a simbol of Chinese cash coin.
The occurences of these silver pieces, are influenced by the rebel Yakub Beg, when he captured and ruled the 8 cites in southern Xinjiang from 1873 to 1878, he had issued silver pieces of the kind. To my understanding, including yours and those have been reported, are all imitated from and consequnt to the Yakub Beg's silver pieces by the 8 cities.