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Smartkooke New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 08/18/2012 7:05 pm A friend gave me this coin as a birthday present. I went to a person who sells and buys coins to see if it was real. He did all of the tests and said it was, but I want to make sure he was right and its worth. Here are the pictures: Report this Post to the Staff

gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 08/18/2012 7:27 pm Scrap metal value - not original. If you can read a bit of Chinese, it's a mule of Yunnan - Shensi which doesn't exist. Secondly, if you look up "spring yunnan dollar" in google, this is an extremely rare coin. Lastly, details are crude. If you did a magnet test and if it sticks to the magnet, you should know what it is. The deal is, don't buy Chinese coins unless you really know what you are looking at. You don't know if you are getting counterfeits that are contamined with heavy lead, arsenic or whatever it is. I had a nasty allergy reaction when I handled a poor counterfeit a while ago. My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff
macmercury Pillar of the Community United States 5838 Posts	Posted 08/18/2012 7:59 pm I don't even need to do the test, like gxseries said, the writing is all over the coin obverse and reverse that it doesn't match up. Report this Post to the Staff
Smartkooke New Member United States 2 Posts	Posted 08/19/2012 12:15 am When I went to the pawn shop this coin actually passed the magnet test though. Does that mean anything? Report this Post to the Staff
allranger Pillar of the Community United States 1391 Posts	Posted 08/19/2012 01:00 am Means it's not magnetic. You can make a fake coin out of metals that aren't magnetic (lead). That is why it is one of the tests people use. Report this Post to the Staff
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