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Coins From My Father

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 Posted 11/26/2014  11:49 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Williamburr to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi all

here are some coins I received from my father as a boy. hope you can identify them. Thanks very much in advance

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 Posted 11/27/2014  12:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nalaberong to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
#1 is not a coin. It looks like some sort of religious token, it bears the number "907" in Arabic and there is some other assorted Arabic text on it - quite strange.

#2 is a modern Chinese fake of a classic Chinese coin. Basically no value.
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 Posted 11/27/2014  12:19 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
#1 is a "pilgrim token", a kind of object often found in Southeast Asia. It is not old - certainly not as old as "907", either in the Christian or Islamic calendar.

As nalaberong said, #2 is not genuine, but a replica. Genuine 1 tael coins of Kiangnan Province never existed.
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 Posted 11/27/2014  10:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Williamburr to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Sap and nalaberong for the identification:)
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 Posted 11/28/2014  6:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jcmworld to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Top one's a modern copy of a Javanese Magic Coin. Second is a fantasy based on a Sumatra 1 keping coin, probably modern too.
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