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Jaymon74 Pillar of the Community United States 844 Posts	Posted 01/23/2014 2:03 pm I did a search on ebay for this coin. Although I couldn't find the exact coin, I did identify it as Chinese. Now I have some questions of authenticity. The ones I found on ebay were labeled "silver" Mine is not. It jumps to a magnet. So I started looking closer at the coin and saw that the reeding is overlapped. To give the experts here a better idea of the coin in question, I measured and weighed the coin and supplied pics. If I need to provide closer views of certain parts of the coin I'll break out the Carson and provide them. The diameter is 39.16mm thickness is 2.37mm weight is 20.1g Also, if it's a fake, what is it supposed to be? Value if authentic? Year? I saw some high prices on ebay for very similar coins. Report this Post to the Staff

nalaberong Pillar of the Community Canada 2805 Posts	Posted 01/23/2014 2:08 pm Absolutely, irrevocably fake. Magnetic, terrible details, awful reeding... yup, this is the textbook "we weren't even trying" Chinese knockoff. Can't help you on value if authentic, but don't think there's even a glimmer of hope here - if this was any more fake it would go through the other side and become real. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16844 Posts	Posted 01/23/2014 4:54 pm Correct. Chinese dollars are supposed to be silver, of about the same weight and fineness as an American silver dollar. The coin (listed in Krause as KM/Y# 55) is undated but it is known to have been struck in 1898-1899. And if authentic, this coin would be worth tens of thousands of dollars. This one, despite being chopped and scratched, attained US$15,000 at a Baldwins auction in Hong Kong in 2009. 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
Jaymon74 Pillar of the Community United States 844 Posts	Posted 01/23/2014 5:28 pm Thanks guys! I knew if anyone could help me, it would be my friends here! Report this Post to the Staff
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