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Asian Tokens Real Fake ? Please Help | 3 Fake 1 Real

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These came from my nans collection passed down to myself ,
Any info on these I've checked through 3 world coin books can't seem to find anything that matches ,similar yes , none the same
Anything would help , think I need an experts keen eye tell if it's fake or real as I really haven't a clue

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The top one appears real, if somewhat harshly cleaned. The other three are certainly modern machine-struck replicas. The pattern of random dots stamped into the obverses is their attempt at reproducing the sandy-looking background surface of a genuine cast coin.

The top coin in the bottom pic is upside-down. And you won't find a matching coin in the world coin books unless you have a book that goes back to the 1700s, because this is a coin of the Qian Long emperor (older books might call him "Ch'ien Lung" - same name, just written differently), who reigned from 1735 to 1796. He had an extremely long reign at a time when China was still rich, prosperous and at peace - so his coins are still extremely cheap and common, even after nearly 300 years.
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And I thought that one was a fake and the others where ok ,and this is why I needed to join ,,still learning new to coin collecting a baby really , I do have books dating back to the 1700 standard cattaloge of world coins to date , mite need to go back and have a look , thank you for your reply I shall go and look it up now I have dates and so on

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