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Rest in Peace
United States
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Really need help with this find from today. It's thin, has a diameter of 2 mm and weighs 1.1 grams. Any help with country and date will be appreciated. Also value if any. Thanks.   Identified - moved to World Coin forum -Sap |
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
651 Posts |
This looks like a fake Chinese cash coin to me.
It is made in name of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, with the mentioning of his reign-name Hsuang tung. Mint name is Boo Ciowan: Hu-Pu Board of Revenue (Peking)
This coin is obviously struck, and normally those cash coins were cast (with some exceptions, but not this one).
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New Member
United States
31 Posts |
Sharper than any I have or maybe even have seen. Look struck to me too.
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Rest in Peace
 United States
3039 Posts |
I got ahold of a world coin book and checked China. This coin is similar to many depicted but I couldn't match it exactly to tell what province it came from.
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 Australia
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See the dots all over the obverse? They're a sure sign of an imitation coin; genuine coins are cast, while this is machine-struck; the dots are supposed to mimic (at first glance) the sandy appearance of a genuine cast coin.
The Chinese and Manchu scripts are both rather badly drawn; the "mintmark" is supposed to be Revenue Mint, Beijing, as Bart said.
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Valued Member
United States
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There were some machine struck cash coins (starting 1889). However the one's I have seen don't have the dots. And the characters on this one is not right.
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Rest in Peace
United States
3039 Posts |
Thanks to all for the info. I learned a lot. I'm not very good at foreign coin ID. I usually just play with U.S. By the way, that's where I found this coin, in a roll of nickels. Machine wrapped in a cello roll. Like I said-weird !
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Certianly seems that the price was right. Did you get this coin plus 39 nickels? or 40?
I have gotten extras in 1 and 5 cent rolls in the past.
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Valued Member
United States
414 Posts |
This is mostly likely to make for the deco rather than as fake collecting coin. I have a deco from china with ~100 of them.
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Valued Member
United States
230 Posts |
I used to see this coin for sale at Pier 1 Imports. Part of their feng shui section. These coins, rocks, candles, etc. All designed to create a proper aura in the home.
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Valued Member
Canada
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These "coins" were made starting in the early 1990"s. They were often packaged in sets of all the Ching emperors, but with the reverses all with the exact same size and style of writing the mint name. The thin, smooth coins with the raised bumps give them away. The genuine coins tend to be thicker, and have different ways of writing the characters.
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