DescriptionAnhui (Anwhei) is an inland province just west of Jiangsu, where the great port city of Shanghai is located. The big city in Anhui is Suzhou. The Huangshan Mountains are a distinctive feature.The Chinese government started buying Western coin presses toward the end of the 19th century. The bureaucracy was a hybrid of decentralized and centralized systems. Local mints had some autonomy, which they expressed in their coinage designs.
