Another Chinese Cash

How do you know? Is it the beads in the middle?

Around thirty years ago, I was buying Chinese cash coins in multiples for 20 cents each. I am now very glad that I did.
I had not the slightest idea of what I was buying, but I assumed that a lot of them could be fakes.
Certainly, I had no idea of how to pick which ones may have been fake, but for 20 cents, who cares?
I certainly didn't! I accumulated about 200 Chinese coins over a period of some months.

Then I was lucky enough to obtain a copy of Schjoth. Over about a period of about six months, I was eventually able to attribute all of them. Lucky me! I was also able to figure that almost all of them were genuine.

Of course, these days you can't buy common old genuine Chinese cash coins for 20 cents.
At 20 cents each then, it was then probably not worth the effort of even the Chinese to forge their own cash coins.

It is now.
Especially when cash coins can be sold for $5 to $10 each.
I don't collect them anymore.

I am happy. I have almost all Emperors represented by at least one coin.
They now sit all fully attributed, in 2x2's, in 20 pocket museum quality album pages, in an album specially dedicated to them.
And Schjoth sits next to them.

Actually, Schjoth is dead now , but I have a copy of one of his memorials!