Posted 05/22/2011 4:56 pm
G'day & welcome,
I hope to visit Singapore in the next year or so. I'll ask you for some advice about the best place for coin supplies.
Of the foreign coins that I find in my change, Singaporean are the most frequently seen. A few days ago, I got a near-Unc 2010 Sin$1.
Your coin is sometimes called the "fat man dollar". If you go to this link, you recognze your man straight away -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Shikai
Fake copies of this coin are widely seen in PRC: nearly every stall in every night market had these and other replica dollars, when I was last there.
So, with the weight being off, I'd expect your coin to be a "replica". In my limited experience, replicas are usually underweight, so I'm wondering what's different about yours: possibly it's made of lead (Pb), or has a lead-core ?
Peter in Darwin, Australia
I hope to visit Singapore in the next year or so. I'll ask you for some advice about the best place for coin supplies.
Of the foreign coins that I find in my change, Singaporean are the most frequently seen. A few days ago, I got a near-Unc 2010 Sin$1.
Your coin is sometimes called the "fat man dollar". If you go to this link, you recognze your man straight away -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Shikai
Fake copies of this coin are widely seen in PRC: nearly every stall in every night market had these and other replica dollars, when I was last there.
So, with the weight being off, I'd expect your coin to be a "replica". In my limited experience, replicas are usually underweight, so I'm wondering what's different about yours: possibly it's made of lead (Pb), or has a lead-core ?
Peter in Darwin, Australia
Edited by Peter THOMAS
05/22/2011 5:02 pm
05/22/2011 5:02 pm
