Info About Chinese Schjoth Catalogue

I don't think nobody knows the answer.

I don't think I have ever seen or heard of the book, "Schjoth Chinese Currency Catalog."

Plus I don't know what "Schjoth" is or how it is associated with China.

"Schjoth" is the author of what was, until the 1990's, the only comprehensive and accurate English-language catalogue of Chinese coins; there are a couple for sale on Amazon right now. It's still considered a standard work.

I didn't reply when the OP was posted, because I don't have a Schjoth, I only have a Jen (Krause) book, which quotes Schjoth's numbers, and those aren't in the format you describe.

If you can scan a page or picture with the mysterious marks, I might be able to tell you what they're for. Offhand, my best guess is a measurement of diameter, in centimetres, with the comma acting as a decimal point in the European fashion.

I do have Schjoth (he was a Swedish - I think - collector and this is a record of his collection) and it is a "kind of" useful reference. Up to 10 years ago it was invaluable - but more recent research has suggested that the dating is out in some areas and other things are just wrong. The Krause catalogues are by no means perfect here either.

For better references on Chinese coins Hartill is propably one of the best and Jen is better than Schjoth (though I seem to remember some critisms of it but can't remember what)

I'm at work (shhh don;t tell the boss!) so can't check my copy at the momment - it's been years since I opened it

I also beleive Jen is not so good, there are several coin missing compared to Schjoth, and in some cases on Schjoth there are also more pictures than Krause.
Anyway, Bacchus2 could you explain the meaning of [C#,##] reference reported on some Scjoth reverse coin pictures ?
I'm attaching some scanned pages of Schjoth:

1st Cover page

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2nd Title page

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3rd Index page

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4th and 5th Coins description pages

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6th and 7th Coins pictures pages

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you can see in the 6th page there are only catalogue reference number associated to coins reverse pictures, while in the 7th page there are several coins w/ in addition the nreference number [C#,##]

Ah. I believe these are references to the old Craig catalogue of world coins (a precursor to Krause), which covered the period 1750-1850. You'll sometimes see C#s used in Krause, too.

To check this theory: all the coins with these "C#s" should have had at least part of their reign between 1750 and 1850. If C#s appear for emperors who only reigned outside this range, then my theory is wrong.