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phoenetics New Member 15 Posts	Posted 08/17/2014 10:03 pm Hi There, I have a few coins that I have been trying to identify for some time now. If you recognize them in the slightest, please let me know, I've exhausted every keyword search on Google I could come up with! I'm not sure on the orientation on some of the coins, but any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much, phoenetics Report this Post to the Staff

Fuzzy317 Moderator United States 14463 Posts	Posted 08/17/2014 10:09 pm 2nd from right is from Burma (Myanmar) Report this Post to the Staff
jgfindring Rest in Peace United States 1380 Posts	Posted 08/17/2014 10:17 pm Middle one is Ethiopia (Empire) Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16817 Posts	Posted 08/17/2014 10:31 pm From left to right: #1: Burma. #2: Ottoman Turkey. #3: Ethiopia. #4: Burma again. #5: Not a coin. It is a machine-struck replica of a cash coin, but the "500" is novel. Perhaps made for and used as a token somewhere. 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
phoenetics New Member 15 Posts	Posted 08/18/2014 12:19 am Thank you for the info. Does anyone have more information on the 500 cash coin? Report this Post to the Staff
manymore Valued Member United States 347 Posts	Posted 08/18/2014 02:35 am Quote: Does anyone have more information on the 500 cash coin? Your coin mimics this coin (first image) which was struck during the reign of the Guangxu Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. The inscription reads guang xu tong bao (å.‰ç·'e€šå¯¶). (Unfortunately, the software on this forum does not display certain Chinese characters.) The orientation of your coin is not correct. Please rotate the coin 90 degrees counterclockwise so that the character bao (å¯¶) is at the top. Also, the inscription on your coin is not read in the traditional manner of top, bottom, right, left. On your coin the inscription is read in a clockwise manner beginning with the guang (å.‰) character at the 3'oclock position. No cash coins were actually struck with the number "500" during the Qing Dynasty. Larger denomination cash coins used Chinese numbers in the inscription. Five hundred would have been written as äº"ç™¾. (Sorry, but this is a forum software problem.) Arabic numbers such as "500" were not used on Chinese cash coins. Your "coin" is a modern novelty piece. Gary Report this Post to the Staff
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