Fat Man Chinese Coin With Different Symbol On The Back

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42tmc New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 11/09/2023 2:44 pm I have not been able to identify this fat man coin with the different symbol on the back? any ideas? Report this Post to the Staff

Spence Moderator United States 32891 Posts	Posted 11/09/2023 3:20 pm @42t, first welcome to CCF. Second, can you please post the weight and diameter of this piece. There are gazillions of fakes of these, so please also let us know if a magnet is attracted to it. Thx. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 160923 Posts	Posted 11/09/2023 3:25 pm to the Community! Coin Collector Since 1978 My Avatar My Old Avatar My 7070 My Eisenhower Dollars CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
Zurie Pillar of the Community United States 5256 Posts	Posted 11/09/2023 5:43 pm The characters on the reverse translate to "5 yuan", instead of the standard 1 yuan fat man dollar. I suspect that means it's not a genuine piece. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16243 Posts	Posted 11/09/2023 7:45 pm Hello and welcome. Quote: The characters on the reverse translate to "5 yuan", instead of the standard 1 yuan fat man dollar. I suspect that means it's not a genuine piece. Zurie is correct, it says "5 yuan", or "5 dollars". China never made a silver 5 dollar coin. A "genuine silver 5 dollar coin", if such a thing had ever existed in 1914 (the date this coin shows), would necessarily have had to weigh five times what a silver dollar weighed (or about 130 grams, or a bit over 4 troy ounces), and I can guarantee you that this piece is nowhere near that large and heavy. So yes, it's technically not even "fake", since there are no genuine coins anything like it. Which also explains why you haven't had much luck finding anything similar in the references. What we have here is a "fantasy". We have seen similar fantasies posted before; Here's one posted in 2015, much the same design but dated "Year 5" not "Year 3". There's another, but Year 10, in this group of fakes posted in 2020. 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
42tmc New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 11/14/2023 2:48 pm Ahhh, yes it must be a fake the coin attached rather quickly to a magnate. Thank you all for your help! Will post again when I need help! Regards, Tom Report this Post to the Staff
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