Need Help Identifying Oriental Coin

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mespe New Member United States 35 Posts	Posted 09/13/2007 10:30 am Physical description 18.7 grams silver 1.5 inch by 1/8 inch Image: unknown1.jpg 85.82 KB Image: unknowna.jpg 98.55 KB Edited by mespe 09/13/2007 10:38 am Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 09/13/2007 11:19 am Hello and welcome I don't believe this is a coin, it could be a token or medal. The image is of Sun Yat-sen and amount is one yuan (dollar) but it is written backwards and there is no date. From the image the metal doesn't look like silver or copper-nickel, Yuan coin usually weight between 26.7 to 27 grams. View my collection at http:www.omnicoin.com/?collection=echizento Report this Post to the Staff
mespe New Member United States 35 Posts	Posted 09/13/2007 10:30 pm Yes it does look like Sun Yet Sen,,, I've been searching for hours and nothing like it shows up,,, Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16826 Posts	Posted 09/14/2007 02:54 am If you've got something "Asian", the best place to look is zeno.ru, an excellent database of Oriental and Islamic coins. There are a couple of examples of this "coin", listed over there under China/Medals/Souvenir and China/Coin-like souvenirs. Here's a link to an example. 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
Bryan1315 Bedrock of the Community United States 14454 Posts	Posted 09/14/2007 04:45 am could his medal be a copy of an original? the reason I ask is because it just looks like the lines are thicker in area's and some of the detail is missing like around his left ear and on the reverse the right side of the roof of the hut and even the clouds and stuff doesn't look as pronounced as the other picture. I guess all this could be accounted for from wear and that is why I am asking. I am not familiar with very many foreign coins/metals and was just wondering about this, definately not trying to make a statement that it is fake Report this Post to the Staff
swamperbob Pillar of the Community United States 5362 Posts	Posted 09/15/2007 09:23 am I agree with Bryan - a modern Fantasy in white metal using spark erosion dies. Report this Post to the Staff
gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 09/15/2007 2:14 pm As mentioned in the other forum, it's just a fantasy. It does mention "Mr. Sun Yet Sun, the Father" and the denomination 1 yuan but no year on it. My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff
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