Help Needed With Dating Chinese Coins

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Cape Town Coins New Member South Africa 9 Posts	Posted 03/03/2014 10:28 am Hi everyone After many years of frustration, I have given up trying to date Chinese, Thai and Ethiopian coins. Can anyone please help with the dates of these two Chinese coins? 10 Cents 20 Cents Regards Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16883 Posts	Posted 03/03/2014 7:38 pm The 10 cents does not bear a date; many Chinese coins of this period do not. The Krause catalogue reports that these were struck with this exact same design unchanged from 1890 to 1908. This is known only by referring to mint records. The 20 cents does bear a date, using the 60-year Chinese cycle; the two date-characters are the ones at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock on the Chinese-only side. In this case, the date converts to AD 1900. 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
Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 03/03/2014 7:43 pm I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but both coins are almost certainly modern fakes. The details are all too squishy and the letters look like they were carved in by hand... there's no consistency in the letters, even on the same coin. Report this Post to the Staff
Cape Town Coins New Member South Africa 9 Posts	Posted 03/03/2014 11:27 pm Thanks for the help! Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 03/06/2014 10:47 am a lot of fake copies can be found on internet. These are indeed fakes. Sorry.... Report this Post to the Staff
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