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Unidentified Chinese Copper Coin

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 Posted 04/15/2012  9:51 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add alalbads to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi,

First time user, please help if you can. I have this coin, tried to identify it for ages, to no avail... From what I understand it is a 5 cash coin? From kansu circa 1920? But can't find it in any catalogs.

I found something that looks like it (try googling e�"�e�"� 當e四十- �"�- �-) but the reverse is different.

Any ideas? Anyone ever came across one of these?

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Much appreciated,

alex
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 Posted 04/16/2012  05:49 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hello and welcome.

Your coin is, unfortunately, a modern replica. The reason the other side doesn't match up with anything you can find is that it's actually a "two-tailed mule" - the two sides are actually the reverses of two different coins. Here is a 5 cash of 1925, from which the left pic was derived. The other side is based on a different denomination, a 40 cash, which apparently only comes in sand-cast versions: example.
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 Posted 04/16/2012  6:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add alalbads to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi Sap,

Thank you for that. bummer though :) Oh well, will teach me not to buy things I can't find in catalogs!

Many thanks again,

Alexi
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