Century Silver Coins of China

 Posted 12/29/2007  9:51 pm

Need some help on something I know nothing about. I collect mainly US coinage. But today we went to a antique shop looking for some bar signs and memorbilia. One one table they had a album that read "Century Silver coins of China". I took one out and held it on the tips of my fingers and that destinctive silver ring rang out. So I was 99% sure they were actually silver coins.

Tag inside said Chinese Silver dollars from 1850-1949. In all there were 72 coins and the price was right. I asked the lady about them and she said she knew nothing about that both other then a older lady was selling off some of her late husbands things. She said she bought in all kind of US coins that went fast to a dealer.

She said she brought these in this morning along with the tokens that were there. I wasn't interested in the transit token but may go back to see what she has with my book for reference. I didn;t want to take a chance on the China silver coins at this price. If they are silver scrap would be 10 times what I paid for them.

I only see one with a date and thats 1867 and it says One Dollar on it. I did search some on eBay and a couple I could find were going for between $100 and $200 in XF condition. Here are a few pictures of a couple. The weigh in differently on my scale. None weigh in at the 26 grams I seem posted on another post. Most are between 19 and 21 grams.

Any help would be appreciated as I know nothing about these coins.



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