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Please Help To Identify This Coin | Replica Chinese Tael

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 Posted 03/01/2012  03:09 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add jonathanr to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Can anyone please help me identify this coin?
And possibly its value?
I found this coin amongst my bunch of coins of different currencies.
Thanks


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 Posted 03/01/2012  11:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
, jonathanr!

First step is authentication, there are lots of fakes. I'm sure there are a few experts on these, they tend to be on line in the evening EDT.
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It is not genuine, I'm afraid. It's a replica of a very scarce Chinese pattern coin, the "dragon tael" from Kwangtung Province. Most provinces of China never issued taels for circulation. See This example of a fake on zeno.ru.

Several other people have posted these on the forum before. See this thread and this thread.
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Thanks for the help guys. And the welcome notes.
It's so unfortunate that it's a fake.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume fakes aren't really worth anything?

Thanks again everybody for helping me out.
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 Posted 03/10/2012  10:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Their only value is for education and research. Search for black cabinet.
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This article provides some background information concerning the Empress Dowager Cixi and the coin.

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