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52Raymo Pillar of the Community United States 8516 Posts	Posted 07/25/2013 6:52 pm Is there any way to tell the year of this ? Oregon coin geek.....* GO BEAVS ! ! ! * Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16826 Posts	Posted 07/25/2013 7:17 pm Yes. Not all early Chinese machine-struck coins bear dates, but his particular one does. On the Chinese-only side, the two characters at 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock are the date, as depicted in the sixty-year-cycle Heavenly Stems-Earthly Branches calendar. You can find a decoder table for this "cyclical date" calendar at the front of the China listing in Krause, but only a few of the sixty possible character combinations were ever used on coins. This coin's date translates to AD 1909. 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
52Raymo Pillar of the Community United States 8516 Posts	Posted 07/25/2013 7:19 pm Thanks Sap ! Oregon coin geek.....* GO BEAVS ! ! ! * Report this Post to the Staff
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