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Cola New Member United States 5 Posts	Posted 08/28/2011 12:42 pm I recently got this coin from someone who found it in a storage unit that he purchased. I know coins like this are often faked but whoever had it before cared enough to card it. I recently saw online someone sold a similar one for a large sum of money, so in the off chance that this was the real deal I wanted to be sure to ask. I am a beginning coin collector so I am still learning the tricks of the trade in identifying stuff like that. I didn't find too much about this specific coin online but I did notice some differences between this coin and the one that I found sold online. Any help would be nice and I look forward to exploring this forum and community more. Thanks for the help! Edited by Cola 08/29/2011 09:49 am Report this Post to the Staff

nikola Valued Member Croatia (Locally: Hrvatska) 342 Posts	Posted 08/28/2011 1:46 pm Hello. See if the coin is magnetic and weight the coin for start. Market is full of Chines fakes. Composition: Silver Fineness: 0.9000 Weight: 26.6999g ASW: 0.7726oz Ruler: Kuang-hsü Note: Struck at Chin Mint (Peiyang Arsenal), Tientsin. Obverse Inscription: Kuang-hsü Yüan-pao Reverse: Thinner side-view dragon, legend at bottom, year as 33rd"" Reverse Legend: PEI YANG Report this Post to the Staff
Cola New Member United States 5 Posts	Posted 08/28/2011 4:25 pm Thank you for the information, I appreciate it very much. I don't have a scale to weigh it but I did use a magnet and it is magnetic, so I am assuming that points to this being a fake, right? Report this Post to the Staff
nikola Valued Member Croatia (Locally: Hrvatska) 342 Posts	Posted 08/28/2011 4:27 pm Yes,it did not pass first test. Report this Post to the Staff
manymore Valued Member United States 347 Posts	Posted 08/28/2011 8:26 pm It's not surprising that this coin failed to pass the magnet test. The only authentic "33rd Year" Kuang Hsu "one tael" denomination coins made in Pei Yang were "pattern" coins. They are extremely rare and sell for well over US$100,000 each. Gary Report this Post to the Staff
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