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| Spade Money, Etc -- How Tell If Authentic
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TypeCoin971793
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 Posted 03/08/2021 01:44 am
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Do you even know what it is? or what the characters are saying? My expert friend? Do you know Chinese at all?
You added this after I started replying. You apparently have no idea who I am.
This is a "Lu Shi Jin Bi" "pointed-eared" spade. These are hyper rare, not to be confused with the more-common "Jin Bi" type. There is no size reference, but it is a large-size spade, being the full "one-Jin" weight, reather than the standard half-jin weight of most other flat-handled spades. Of all of the distinct spade types, it is the third or fourth rarest, with flat-handle "hollow handle" spades, three-hole spades, and square-shoulder arch-foot spades showing up less frequently. I still don't have a full-jin pointed-ear spade, but I hope to get one eventually.
"Lu Shi" is the name of the city that made the spades. They actually made some rare sloping-shoulder hollow-handle spades, but those are actually more common than the pointed-ear variant. |
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| Spade Money, Etc -- How Tell If Authentic
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TypeCoin971793
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Posted 03/08/2021 01:24 am
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I saw this coin when it came up on eBay. Twice.
It's a fake with a scary-convincing patina. The shape is wrong, and some of the surface is completely pristine, showing metal color inconsistent with the alloys used at the time. The thick lines on the reverse are a giveaway, contrasting with the sharp lines on the obverse. This fake probably came from a workshop whose wares end up on a eBay seller's store named "museumscollection". The style is consistent with those fakes. The patina was probably added later. |
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| Spade Money, Etc -- How Tell If Authentic
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TypeCoin971793
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Posted 03/07/2021 2:20 pm
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stay a way from spades, I have yet to see a real one in US. Most are fakes, and it is IMPOSSIBLE to tell based on the photo, you need them up close and judge it from every possible angle.
You have no clue what you are talking about. I have seen hundreds of genuine spades on the Western market. I have seen an order of magnitude more fakes, but genuine examples are definitely available.
95% of the time, it is definitely possible to tell real or fake from the photo. That's hardly impossible. |
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TypeCoin971793
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Posted 02/14/2021 4:13 pm
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Hello! BobL reached out to me and let me know someone needed help over here. You probably can't contact me yet since you don't have enough posts yet. I should be able to contact you once you set up direct messaging capabilities. You can do this by clicking Tools -> Manage Profile -> Set "Allow members to contact you" to "yes". See images below.
Being from before 1985 isn't necessarily a helpful metric. There were low-quality forgeries produced for well over 100 years before that, usually sold to tourists and missionaries, hence the name "missionary counterfeits". I see these all the time, and they may even come with very old collector tags.
Scans are fine. If the coins were purchased as long ago as you say they were, then saying real or fake should be very easy. |
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TypeCoin971793
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Posted 01/04/2020 08:28 am
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Hello! I am your resident expert on ancient Chinese coins.
I saw this thread yesterday, but didn't have time to respond. There were a bunch more pictures. Do you mind uploading them again?
The first coin is a hollow-handle spade. It is much smaller than most and has a 2-character inscription, and it is rare as such. I'm on the fence about authenticity with this one. I've seen these sell for $1000-2500.
The "cheese-grater" like thing I know nothing about, but I have seen them before.
Your next hollow-handled spade is the most common of the type with an inscription of "Wu". It is completely genuine. Value is $500-750.
You have a large knife coin, which is a 5-character JiMo knife. It is absolutely genuine. The value of that coin has exploded tenfold in the past 10 years. It would easily fetch $8000-15000 on the market today.
The fish "coin" is a probably burial money that never really circulated. Bridge money is in the same category. They are very common and not valuable. Your would fetch $50-100. |
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| 1799 Draped Bust Dollar On Greatcollections. How'd It Straight Grade?
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TypeCoin971793
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Posted 06/01/2019 9:33 pm
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I don't agree. The early silver coins tend to have a dull gunmetal appearance, which is more obvious on the larger coins. Unless in high AU/MS, in general, there really isn't much, if any, luster on these early coins.
I'm talking about with regards to surface originality. If this coin was an 1880 S Morgan, it would not have straight-graded. The surfaces are not original on the GC coin, and they certainly aren't gunmetal grey. |
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