Need Help Identifying A Collection Of Over 50 Coins/Tokens

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stoogeco New Member United States 47 Posts	Posted 01/28/2016 3:55 pm Hello all. I recently obtained a collection of over 50 Chinese coins/tokens. I am trying to identify them. Short of taking a picture of each one and posting them here (which I'm not opposed to doing) is there a better way of trying to identify them? Any help is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks as always for the help! Dave Report this Post to the Staff

sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 01/28/2016 4:20 pm Be tempted to post pictures of two or three of what you may consider could be the most interesting or valuable. zeno.ru is a good data base to refer to. Schjoth is my first call for reference and identification for Chinese coins. It is also quite educative in how to go about identifying them. Edited by sel_69l 01/28/2016 4:42 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 01/28/2016 6:28 pm http://primaltrek.com/ Report this Post to the Staff
stoogeco New Member United States 47 Posts	Posted 01/28/2016 11:04 pm OK. I've tried, but I have to give up. I just have no clue what I'm looking at. I will attach some pictures for your review. Thanks in advance. Report this Post to the Staff
stoogeco New Member United States 47 Posts	Posted 01/28/2016 11:09 pm And more... Report this Post to the Staff
stoogeco New Member United States 47 Posts	Posted 01/28/2016 11:13 pm And... Report this Post to the Staff
stoogeco New Member United States 47 Posts	Posted 01/28/2016 11:14 pm Hopefully this will provide something to chew on for a while. Thanks in advance for the help! Report this Post to the Staff
Tryna Pillar of the Community United States 937 Posts	Posted 01/29/2016 1:34 pm most of those are tokens, most likely from different temples The lat one may be a real coin and the fourth one above it may be a coin also. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16851 Posts	Posted 01/29/2016 7:46 pm They are all charms, I believe. Number 7 is the most "coin-like", and the inscription on it, "Yong Chang tong bao" (Eternally flourishing currency coin) was used as an inscription on the coins of a late Ming Dynasty rebel emperor (AD 1644-1645). However, his coins are uncommon and usually found in much poorer condition than this, which leads me to conclude this is a "coin-like charm". Number 8 might also be a coin-like charm, though the reverse is too fuzzy to read. 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
stoogeco New Member United States 47 Posts	Posted 01/30/2016 08:53 am Thanks for the info so far. I will post some more pictures of the more "coin like" things soon. Do you think these tokens have much value? Thanks again. Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 02/02/2016 10:58 am You will find a lot of them here: http://primaltrek.com/charmarticles.html http://primaltrek.com/ Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 02/02/2016 4:28 pm scroll down on one of these pages to see your charm (or replica) #2 = Daoist charm : http://primaltrek.com/bagua.html #3 and #5 also looks like Daoist charm #4: lock charm : http://primaltrek.com/locks.html #6 looks like a fish charm #7 and #8: charm with coin inscription http://primaltrek.com/coinlegend.html Report this Post to the Staff
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