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Valued Member
United States
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Please need your help to identify these coins. They are so confusing, I have scanned them but not sure if they are upside down or sideways sorry. If someone could identify where they are from and a date would be helpful. Thank you. I would like to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I have written down all of the information and have taken your advise Fuzzy317, and promise to only post one coin at a time, and now I know how to edit.  I guess this old person needs this to learn.   Edited by bottimurillo90
10/05/2016 2:32 pm
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@bottimurillo90, fyi it is a little easier if you only post one coin at a time for us to identify.
In any case, the first one is a cast cash from the Qing Dynasty in China. The emperor was Gao Zong so the timeframe is 1736-1795 AD. The mint is Baoding, Zhili (Northern China). According to Hartill, this mint was called the "chicken claw" mint due to the somewhat odd shape of the jyi character ont he rev. For the record, your top pic is upside down and your second pic is turned 90° to the left (the chicken claw is on the right side).
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Thank you very much, sorry for posting more than one coin. I didn't know but I'm learning so much from this site and everyone has been so helpful. Again thank you, just one more question please what is a Hartl? I think that's what you called it.
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Valued Member
United States
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Sorry again I meant to say what is a HARTILL?
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Ah sorry, one reference book on cast Chinese coins is David Hartill's, "Cast Chinese Coins". There are others, but this is the one that I use. Here is a CCF link to a discussion of free online resources: https://goccf.com/t/178548I'd bet that you can find one covering this coinage there as well. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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The second and third coins are struck in the name of emperor Guangxu (1875-1908).
I didn't find the second yet, but the third coin is struck in Kwantung (Guangdong).
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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About the second I found the following: Struck in AD 1889- 90 under reign of emperor Guangxu during Qing Dynasty (AD 1644 - 1911) Guangzhou mint, reverse Ku Ping Yi Qian GUANG. H 22.1334
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Canada
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The third coin (last 2 images) is China-Kwangtung, 1 cash, Krause Y190 (1890-1908). Image 5 should be rotated 90 degrees clockwise; Image 6 should be rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
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