拍品描述： 民国十五年山东省拾圆金样币。天津造币厂制。 CHINA. Shantung. Gold 10 Dollars Pattern, Year 15 (1926). Tientsin Mint. NGC MS-65.

机制币中极罕的一枚，银光华丽，通体橄榄黄色出众。鲜少面市，我们悠久的拍卖史中仅曾经手四枚，最近一枚为 NGC MS-64+★，它在我们 2023 年 4 月的香港拍卖会上以 432,000 美元的总价成交（拍品编号 40112）。 此枚，连同同系列的贰拾圆，乃民国十五年直鲁联军总司令张宗昌令天津造币厂制作。张宗昌外号"狗肉将军"，此绰号来自其爱推牌九。此外，他还被称为"三不知将军"，因为他从来不清楚自己的财富，拥多少士兵，甚至记不起自己有多少姨太太。（据说由于记不得名字，他每人给她们一个编号） 与他的后宫话题相关的绰号不胜枚举，声名狼藉。 L&M-1066; Fr-7; K-1536; KM-Pn7; WS-1103; Wenchao-47 (rarity: ★★★★).

A stunning RARITY within the vintage Chinese series, this specimen features a crisp, sharp strike, with vibrant and highly enchanting brilliance, along with an appealing olive-yellow hue throughout. Very seldom encountered in the marketplace, this example represents just the fourth such appearance for the type in over a decade of our iconic and riveting sales--the most recent being an NGC MS-64+★, which realized a total of $432,000 in our April 2023 Hong Kong Auction (Lot # 40112).

This type--along with its larger 20 Dollars sibling--was issued at the behest of a rather colorful character, the so-called "Dogmeat General" of Shantung, Chang Tsung-ch ang (Zhang Zongchang). Chang garnered this unusual nickname on account of his love for Pai gow, a game which, in the northeast, was known "eating dog meat." Additionally, he was known as the "Three Don t Knows" on account of never knowing how much money he had, how many soldiers he had, or even how many women were in his harem (the last of which he labeled merely with numbers in lieu of ever learning or remembering their names). Related to the topic of his harem, further nicknames, such as "72-Canon Chang," "The General with Three Long Legs," and "Old Eighty-Six" (alluding to the height of a stack of 86 Mexican Dollars [8 Reales]), may have been in response to other below-the-belt characteristics.