The front of the three-year edition of the Republic of China is Yuan Shikai's profile, and the "Three Years of the Republic of China" is listed above. There is no word "made" after the word "year", and there is a word "made" after the word "year" in all other editions. There is a "dot" in the word "people" in the three-year edition, while there is no "dot" in other editions. The three-year edition has two kinds of molds: the old mold and the new mold. The old mold has 185 side teeth and the new mold has 17 side teeth, and the casting quantity is large, which belongs to the ordinary circulation edition. The plates with less casting quantity are:

1. "O" plate. That is to say, there is an "O"-shaped inscription in the golden harvest pattern, a horizontal "8" shape at the golden harvest knot, a tiny "O"-shaped circle in the upper left hole, and the front collar of Yuan Xiang's chin is not sealed, with wide epaulettes and five stars protruding.

2. Rough version. Yuan has thick hair and wavy hairstyle. Jiahe knot belt did not form a "8" knot, but an irregular circle was formed at the right side of a bundle of Jiahe knot belt.

3. triangular circular plate. The word "mouth" in the circle on the back of this coin forms a "△" shape, while other editions are "opening" shapes.

4. Open shell version. The bottom horizontal line of the word "shell" in the word "round" of this coin is not connected with the vertical pen, forming an "open shell". This edition of Yuan Xiang has obvious stripes on the epaulettes, and there is a straight line from top to bottom in Yuan's eyes, commonly known as "open eyes", which is also unknown in other editions.

5. add the word "Gansu". This coin belongs to the Lanzhou Mint in Gansu Province, which followed the old model of the three-year edition of the Republic of China. The word "Gansu" was cast around Yuan Xiang, and the rest were the same as the Kaikoubei edition, with only tens of thousands of pieces cast.

6. signed version. This coin is very rare. Tianjin Mint tried to cast a sample coin, but it did not circulate. The coin is engraved with a vertical line of English letters "L.GioRGi" on the right side of the Yuan statue, which is the abbreviation of the signature of Italian sculptor "Rurgi Giorgio", a foreign coin-making expert in China.

7. "t" edge, eagle ocean edge. These two kinds of coins are rare, and they are trial-cast sample coins by Tianjin Mint General Factory. The front and back patterns are the same as those of Yuan Daxiang in circulation, but differ only in the side teeth, which are T-shaped edges or eagle-shaped edges.