Posted 01/17/2017 7:30 pm
They are indeed both from the Ch'ien Lung emperor (spelled "Qianlong" in the modern fashion in China these days). They appear genuine, though perhaps slightly more worn and corroded than usual. The larger one is the older of the two and was cast in the Yunnan Province mint; the smaller one is from the central Board of Revenue mint in Beijing.
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