Posted 09/22/2007 9:14 pm
G'day,
reverse is a map of Taiwan.
Obverse is, I think, a portrait of Chiang Kai-shek ("Jiang Jieshi" in modern spelling convention). If it's not him, then it's his brother-in-law, Dr Sun Yat Sen.
I believe that the Taiwanese still write from-right-to-left. Of the eight characters, I recognize four, from the right -
1. zhong = centre, central
2, 3, 4, & 8 - don't know
5 & 7 = si = four
6 = shi = ten
the combination si-shi-si is the Chinese script for "44". I expect that this dates the coin to the 44th year of the Chinese Republic, which commenced in 1911, therefore circa 1955.
Sorry, but my familiarity with written Chinese is not even enough to get around by myself. I invariably take an interpreter when I go anywhere unfamiliar.
Peter in Oz
"Wo she Zhong Guo-de lui-se"
=I am a son-in-law of China
reverse is a map of Taiwan.
Obverse is, I think, a portrait of Chiang Kai-shek ("Jiang Jieshi" in modern spelling convention). If it's not him, then it's his brother-in-law, Dr Sun Yat Sen.
I believe that the Taiwanese still write from-right-to-left. Of the eight characters, I recognize four, from the right -
1. zhong = centre, central
2, 3, 4, & 8 - don't know
5 & 7 = si = four
6 = shi = ten
the combination si-shi-si is the Chinese script for "44". I expect that this dates the coin to the 44th year of the Chinese Republic, which commenced in 1911, therefore circa 1955.
Sorry, but my familiarity with written Chinese is not even enough to get around by myself. I invariably take an interpreter when I go anywhere unfamiliar.
Peter in Oz
"Wo she Zhong Guo-de lui-se"
=I am a son-in-law of China
