Emperor Guang Xu

Schöth 1575v Ding 2626v. Mint of Ministery of Works.

Thousand Character Classic coin set . Mint of Ministery of Works.
The characters are extracted from the Qian Zi Wen, the Thousand Character Classic, which is an almost 1500 years old school primer consisting of exactly one thousand unique characters. It was written in the Liang dynasty (A.D. 502-557) by the civil servant Zhou Xingsi. The characters do not stand together in the text, but appears in this order. The six characters sums up the meaning of the first three lines of the text:
"In the universe the never ending days come and go". See image of first lines (read right-left, top-bottom).

Coin from Xinjiang from this period. The inscription is in the Uighur language.
It was issued by the rebel Ghazi Rashdin who was in power from 1862-1867. 
It is known in a few varieties from two mints, Kuche and Aksu.
The obverse legend is the name "Seyyid Ghazi Rashdin Khan". The reverse reads "Minted in 
the capital Kuche" (Ren no. 927 p. 189).

Xinjiang. Value 10. Kashgar mint.

KM Xinjiang #17. Obverse Guang Xu Wu Shen. Wu Shen is the name for 1908 in the Chinese lunar calendar. 
Reverse Xin(jiang) above, ten below. Mint possibly Aksu.

Guang Xu Tong Bao. Xinjaing, Aksu mint.

Schöth 1603. Mint of Ministery of Revenue.