Victoria "completion Of The Central Mint Shakghai China 1930" Piece

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Paul Bulgerin Pillar of the Community United States 3098 Posts	Posted 11/07/2016 11:09 am I won this on ebay yesterday for $2.25. I have no real idea of what it is, but it had free shipping so I tossed in a bid out of curiosity. I would assume that it's a fantasy piece of some sort struck with the reverse design for some pieces that were struck for the completion of the mint in Shanghai in 1930. I haven't received it yet and doubt that it's silver. Any idea? A modern fantasy/fake or what? Thanks for any help. Paul Bulgerin Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16883 Posts	Posted 11/07/2016 8:58 pm It is a fantasy. The obverse is of course based on a British crown of Queen Victoria, late 1800s. The reverse is based on a dollar-sized silver medal struck to commemorate the opening of the Shanghai mint. A genuine example of the medal, with the correct Sun Yat-Sen obverse, can be found on the ANS collection database website here. The deliberate mis-spelling of "Shanghai" is there for the same reason that fantasy "coins" with completely wrong dates (eg "1086" instead of 1986) exist: it's supposed to make you say, "Wow! It's an error! It must be valuable!". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
UltraRant Pillar of the Community Norway 1358 Posts	Posted 11/13/2016 04:41 am it's some fantasy piece. Queen Victoria was long dead and buried in 1930. The Shanghai mint was established in 1920, not 1930. Shanghai is not spelled Shakghai: such a dumb error would have been noted by any means of QA, I guess. Report this Post to the Staff
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Victoria "Completion Of The Central Mint Shakghai China 1930" Piece