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Unknown Chinese (Or Japanese) Coin | Hupeh 10 Cash

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Not too sure where this one is from, At first I thought China, Then I noticed the flower in the middle.

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Sap's the expert here on these, but I can tell you it's from Hubei Province
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Is this a coin strike on another coin? I don't know the terminology.
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Is this a coin strike on another coin? I don't know the terminology.

The term you're after is "counterstruck" - when a coin is treated as if it were a blank planchet, and struck with a different coin design.

There are some counterstrikes in the East Asian series from this tme period, but I'm not seeing anything on this coin that indicates it might be a counterstrike. The faint, barely visible details around the dragon are supposed to be there on this design; they've simply disappeared due to an unfortunate combination of worn dies, weak strike and wear from circulation.

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Sap's the expert here on these, but I can tell you it's from Hubei Province

I don't know when I became "the expert". All I've got is Krause.

But it looks like you're right: Chinese Empire, Hupeh province (Hubei in the modern Chinese westernization), 10 cash. The details are too worn, but the five-petalled central flower and the presence of a hyphen after "HU" means it has to be either KM/Y 120a.4 or 120a.6 - 120a.4 has typographical errors in the word "province", which sadly is completely missing from this coin. Either way, it's not particularly scarce or valuable. The coin is undated; Krause lists the issue date at sometime in the period 1902-1905.
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Thank you Sap. You are alway there when we need you. You really are a Pillar in the community.
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