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5 Wu Jiao China Doubled Or Fake?

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Greece
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 Posted 11/20/2011  3:33 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Adeper to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi,
i have one coin of China ---> 5 Wu Jiao China
like this:
http://mcdn01.gittigidiyor.net/1020...92_tn9_0.jpg

My problem is that the two sides is absolutely same. Front and back of this coin is the same. I can't know it's real with mistake or fake?
The coin not have any year...
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 Posted 11/20/2011  5:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tokenmast to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hello Adeper

Gut feeling is that it's a token

Not a fake, but not a coin.

Hard to get a perfect flip in coin press
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 Posted 11/20/2011  8:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
"Wu" is Chinese for "five". "Wu jiao" means "five jiao".

The design is the same as the reverse of a normal 5 jiao coin from mainland China of the 1991-2000 design.

Double-headed or double-tailed coins are very hard to make as a "mint error". It's far more likely that someone's made it as a "double-tailed" trick coin using two normal 5 jiao coins. Look for a seam joining two half-coins together - it'll either be around the edge, or carefully concealed near the rim on one side, like this double-headed American coin.
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 Posted 11/20/2011  9:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add augsburger to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I doubt these are faked, they are worth 5p or 7 cents. I heard that the 1 yuan were faked in some places a few years back, and I have a fake 5 yuan banknote!
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Greece
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 Posted 11/21/2011  3:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Adeper to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
thanks everyone...
i have the idea that is fake but now my mind is more clear !

Well also some (old) dollars from china I think that is the most dangerous place in earth to buy or to have coins...
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 Posted 11/22/2011  01:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add augsburger to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah, every country I have lived in I have got myself a nice coin collection from. China, I have the modern circulating coins, plus a few fakes and a couple of possible real coins, all bought cheap of course.

It's a really disappointing place to be a coin collector, more boring than watch paint dry in water!
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