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New Member
Canada
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Hi out there in coin community. Could someone help me identify the pictured coin please. It is sealed, light weight, gold in color.   *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Reminds me of Chiang Kai-shek portrait wise. However I'm not sure that is Chinese script.
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Valued Member
United States
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New Member
 Canada
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Thank you. Can anyone read the writing in the package? Could this have been a souvenior replica of that medal?
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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It is some kind of traditional Chinese script.
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Pillar of the Community
Singapore
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I can sort of make out the first line - 'navy 2nd class award' I think, the rest of the text is unclear.
The coin's side with the Camel reads: 'people's republic of China year 57', '31st day 10th month'
Edited by Numister
02/13/2016 12:08 am
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Is it correct if I think that 'people's republic of China year 57' is at the top
and '31st day 10th month' at the bottom?
(I am trying to understand the Chinese dating)
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Singapore
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New Member
Canada
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Thank you for the replies.
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Valued Member
United States
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Hi again. The story of the medal gets more interesting. I chanced upon a Chinese colleague who did a little research and found a blog that provided a description: <<This medal is from Taiwan where Chiang Kai-shek retreated from Chinese mainland. It was a gift made by Kuang-kai Liu (an admiral) to Chiang Kai-shek for his 82th birthday on Oct. 31 1969 (57th of the Republic of China). The winged camel means "Miracles could happen". It is a blessing to Chiang Kai-shek, because in Sept. 1969 Chiang had a very serious traffic accident and almost lost his life and he was recovering after a month.>> My colleague also provided a pdf of the blog, which has images of the medal in the same packaging you posted. The image attribution is http://www.coinsky.com, which is a Chinese auction site that takes pride that over 80% of their coins are genuine! The document's entirely in Chinese and there are embedded scripts and links that I will not open, but I could email it to you if you are interested in pursuing this further. |
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New Member
Canada
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Thank you NoPoMoCo. I would be interested in seeing the pdf.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Sorry, it seems that new members such as ourselves are banned from using the CCF email system. I have no way to contact you privately. My forum skills are limited... is there another way?
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New Member
Canada
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I don't know. Could someone let us know how I could get the pdf that nopomoco had in regards to this coin?
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Valued Member
United States
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I did a "Report Post" since I heard that is the best way to attract attention. However, that was awhile ago so we may be on our own.
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United States
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To become "Valued Members" we need more posts. Then we'd have the privilege of email.
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