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I have a Chinese coin with the two flags. Stripe and Star. I believe that it is made of copper and from around 1900.
The problem is that it is unlike the others that I have in that it does not have any English on it like the word "CASH " nor a number. It does not have an English distinguishing writing identifying its area as the others I have and have googled.
Can someone guide me here.
The coin does not have a hole.
The coin seems definitely to be money and not a token.
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@ikuna, first welcome to CCF. Second, yes please attached pics of both sides of the coin to this thread so that we can help you.
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Ok yes, it looks like @aiglet7 nailed it. You have a 10 cash from China that dates to about 1920 AD. Very nice!
"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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The star-flag-and-striped-flag design is only used on Republic-era coins, so any coin depicting them must date from before the founding of the Republic in 1911. Imperial-era coins all usually have a dragon on them.
These coins were made over a couple of decades of the early Republic at numerous mints. There are dozens of different types of ten-cash coins and thousands of varieties, from almost every province in the country. This coin does not bear a mintmark, date or province of origin; this was a deliberate design choice of the mint that made it, as they were probably made using a cheaper alloy and lighter than the official government standard allowed, in an unofficial attempt to save money. Mints in China at the time were not under direct central government control, but rather under the control of provincial governors and warlords and the whole process was mired in inefficiency and corruption.
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Canada
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Possibly from the Kwangtung mint, located in Canton.It used machinery imported from Ralph Heaton & Sons of Birmingham, England. The leaf design shows up on Canadian cents of the Victorian era.
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Trinidad And Tobago
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Does this coin have any real Numismatic Value?
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I just thought that the coin being all in Chinese with no date,no mint mark, no TEN CASH written on it nor the Province it was from made it kind of special.
Don't most common coins in that era have some or all of what this coin did not have ?
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Impressive aiglet7. Well done pre picture.  Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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Trinidad And Tobago
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Thanks everyone for the warm welcome greetings. I hope to learn a lot from you guys.
Thanks again.
Ikuna
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