Talk:Junk dollar

Prose

• who reunified much of the country — perhaps pipe link to Northern Expedition?
  • Done.-G
• Chinese Republican date for the previous year — as above I find it strange that "date" is used to denote only the year.
  • The year on coins seems to always be referred to as the 'date' in numismatic convention (I think because the year something is dated is not necessarily the year it was made, as seen here)
• comparisons to the Rising Sun — why pipe this link instead of just using "Rising Sun flag"? or perhaps "Rising Sun symbolism" for more clarity if it's not just about the flag.
  • Good point.-G
• and most of the initial design were melted down — most coins of the initial design?
  • Fixed.-G
• Chinese Civil War — wikilink
• hyperinflation — wikilink
• and imported from abroad → and import them from abroad — or perhaps even just mint new junk dollars both domestically and abroad
  • Well, they weren't minting them abroad, they were ordering others to mint them. First phrasing you suggested works though.-G
• first made in Guangdong
  • Fixed.-G
• Two commemorative coins featuring President Sun Yat-sen (the memento dollar) and Vice President Li Yuanhong — this is possibly a rare case of respectively being useful. I presume the sentence is saying that there was one coin featuring Sun Yat-sen and another featuring Li Yuanhong, rather than two coins both featuring both people.
  • Good point; fixed.-G
• reunify China from its base in the south — "its" is ambiguous here between referring to China and the KMT
  • Fixed.-G
• poor-quality → poor
  • Done.-G
• arcs the date of minting — again I would write "year of minting" but I am not familiar with numismatics at all, so if this is a convention then feel free to ignore this
• fineness — wikilink perhaps
  • Added.-G
• stated that the coins were popular with the public — is there any reason to doubt this?
  • He was indirectly involved with its creation, so he's not a completely independent source.-G
• was able to open → opened
  • Done.-G
• Shanghai was taken by Communist forces — this is probably beyond the GA criteria but I find it strange that you pipe to People's Liberation Army instead of just writing that.
  • Hmm, good point.-G

Spot check

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Reference #	Letter	Source	Archive	Status	Notes
As the central mint in Tianjin had been rendered inoperable during the revolution, various provincial issues circulated, including restrikes of dragon dollars. Two commemorative coins featuring President Sun Yat-sen (the memento dollar) and Vice President Li Yuanhong, were created in 1912.
4	a	Wright 1978, p. 149.		*	It seems to me that the source only says that the central mint was burned down in 1912, without indicating that it was the year that the coins were created.
Also in 1929, the Ministry of Finance ordered pattern pieces of the Sun Yat-sen dollar to be designed at five different nation's mints: Austria, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. All five mints were given identical specifications, featuring Sun Yat-sen on the obverse and a sailing junk ship on the reverse. The Vienna Mint was additionally commissioned to produce 50, 20, and 10 cent pieces with the same design in correspondingly smaller sizes. None of these designs were used, likely again based off the accuracy of Sun's portrait. However, the reverse of the Italian design was reused for the eventual circulating issue.
14		Kann 1953, pp. 196–200.		Y
The American economist Arthur N. Young praised the coin's design as attractive,
18		Young 1971, p. 185.		Y
In November 1935, the Nationalist government passed a set of currency reforms, abruptly taking the currency off the silver standard and halting the production of silver coins, to be replaced by the use of paper money.
19	d	Kann 1953, p. 201.		Y
23		Wright 2003, p. 328.		Y
Mints in Taipei and possibly Chengdu also produced unknown amounts of Year 23 junk dollars in the latter half of 1949.
19	e	Kann 1953, p. 201.		Y

@Generalissima: Reviewed. Kisseran (talk) 09:36, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

@Kisseran: Thank you so much! Responded to the prose comments + added an extra cite for that issue with the year of production for the two commemorative dollars. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 13:32, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Looks good to me! I'll promote now. Kisseran (talk) 14:39, 11 August 2026 (UTC)