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New Member
United States
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Hello, I have around 150 old chinese coins that I have looked up online and found for several thousand dollars each and I have many I can not find. How do I get started having proof of what I have and making the correct steps towards making the most profit without being in t big of a hurry. Any advise is welcome, Thank You, Jeff
Moved to World Coins forum - Sap
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Pillar of the Community
Egypt
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 to CCF you can post pics of coins you cant identify and there are a lot of helpful and knowledgeable guys here who may help you  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Jeff. Get them graded and authenticated by pcgs or similar. Then you can sell them. There are a heap of fakes of these about so they will need the be checked as to their authenticity before you will be able to sell them |
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Hi Jeff, welcome to the forum. I moved your thread to the World Coins section, since you were asking your question in the welcome section. Please, feel free to post pics of your coins for confirmation, but we do feel obliged to prepare you in advance to be disappointed. As trout said, there are plenty of fake Chinese coins around, both the bronze square-holed "cash" coins and the more modern machine-struck silver dollars. The likelihood of their being genuine depends on how they came into your possession. If you bought them from a reliable coin dealer that knows what they're doing about Chinese coins, there's a good chance that they're genuine. If they were passed down to you from your grandfather's collection (or something similar), then it's possible that they're genuine. If, on the other hand, you bought them at a street-market while a tourist in China, or from a flea-market booth in your hometown, or in a bulk lot on ebay, then I'm afraid it's 100 percent certain the coins are fantasies or replicas. A mixture of super-rarities worth "several thousand dollars each" and unknown/impossible designs is very typical of Chinese replica sets. See this thread and this thread for some pics of typical "fantasy dollars". 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
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New Member
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Thank You all so much. I have already told myself theres no way I could be so lucky for them to be real but I cant just throw them out. We're scanning them now to post as soon as we get finished. Any advice on where I should post them?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Post one or two on this thread and we can take it from there. Ideally one coin per thread - but I think in this instance we can handle a couple :)
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New Member
United States
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Thanks again. We are hooking up our old scanner and it is giving us problems so please just hang with us. we are trying our best. Should I start setting up a place to take photos? We really cant move foward until we get them posted, correct?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I think tha tposting 150 in one go would be a bit much for everyone. Just add a couple to this thread. I'm sure after a few we'll all know where we stand.
While a few older cash coins are iron and therefore magnetic - anything purporting to be silver certainly won't be silver. You might want to see if anythign is magnetic. If you don't have a magnet - your fridge door should have one.
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New Member
United States
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Here is the reverse  |
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New Member
United States
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Here is Obverse and Reverse  |
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New Member
United States
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These are two of them guys, let me know if more pix are needed. Thanks again
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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The news is bad I'm afraid. These are modern, mass produced fakes that come out of China in their thousands.
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Australia
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Yes, both these coins are fantasies, I'm afraid.
But I'm confused, jeff. Why are you posting under two different forum usernames?
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
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New Member
United States
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I posted the pics for him using a scanner. I have another coin it says Twenty Second of Kuang Hsu Pei Yang Arsenal. I am currently trying to get good pics together since the scanner doesn't show the coins detail. Probably a fake but who knows?
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New Member
United States
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Sorry I left out the year part of that last post.
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