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deanoa7x New Member United Kingdom 1 Posts	Posted 08/14/2012 06:57 am Hey, I'm new to this site, joined up on behalf of my Grandad, basically he has got a selction of what we think are chinese/vietnamesse coins, any help in identifiying them and what they are etc would be much appreciate, thanks in advance :) P.s not sure if this was the right section, appologise if not, Dean Report this Post to the Staff

wheatiefan Pillar of the Community United States 508 Posts	Posted 08/14/2012 09:13 am The first oval coin appears to be a Japanese Tempo Tsuho, denomination of 100 mon, from the mid-late 1800s. Common ones sell for $10-20. The second one looks like ancient Chinese knife money. That's about the extent of my knowledge on these. However I assume them to be fake unless proven otherwise. Other members can read the characters and give a better analysis. The third is not familiar to me, which only means it is not a common Chinese or Japanese coin. It may be an uncommon coin from those countries, a coin from a neighboring country, or not a genuine coin. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16849 Posts	Posted 08/14/2012 10:27 am Hello and welcome. I wish I had some good news for your grandfather, but unfortunately, I do not. I can;t speak for the authenticity of the first coin, but the two others are definitely modern replicas. The knife coin is a replica of the extremely scarce Wang Mang 5000 cash knife coin. Genuine examples have the characters on the round end inlaid with gold, not raised up as they are on this piece. Compare it with this genuine piece on zeno.ru. The third piece is likewise a replica of a rather scarce item, this time one of the large multiple-cash coins of the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty; compare it with the examples here. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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