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Japanese / Chinese Coins And Charms , ID Help - 3/9

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A spade and key of Wang Mang? And a possibly larger spade coin or token, of similar age?


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@jeff, it is my understanding that these sorts of oddly-shaped Chinese money are highly counterfeited. Unless these pieces have impeccable provenance, I would assume that they are fakes. There have been a few CCF members over the years with lots of experience in them (not me) and so I would encourage you to look at some of these old threads. Here are a couple links to get you started:

https://goccf.com/t/278700
https://goccf.com/t/287319

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The "key" (or Wang Mang knife) is definitely a replica; the script used on the blade is wrong. The other two I can be less certain about, though they are suffering from guilt by association.
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