Been way backlogged in cataloging. This is one of the more interesting ones. Xinjiang has been on the news, mostly for negative reasons.
Xinjiang seems to be a rather exotic place to me. Coins issued in the early 1900s had inscriptions in both Chinese and Arabic which I wished I could read.
Coin of interest is this:
Poorly struck but a better image can be seen here:
https://www.NGCcoin.com/price-guide...duid-1290525No year on this coin unless it's written in Arabic. I'm suspecting it was issued around 1910 - 1920s.
I would love to know what the Arabic text is. The Chinese text I believe is
#20013;#33775;#27665;#22283; #37509;#37666; - Republic of China Copper Money
#30070;#32005;#37666;#21313;#25991; - Copper 10 cash
#26032;#30086;#21888;#36896; - Struck in Xinjiang Kashgar
The interesting part of this coin is if you rotate it around at a right angle, it reveals this
The characters of "#20013;" & "#27665;" can be seen.
A better quality can be seen here:
http://gxseries.com/ct/sinkiang_rotated_f.jpgA likely candidate of the original host could be this:
or this
Catalog value of this coin may not seem to be high but trust me, this does not appear in the market often. On top of this, all the examples that I have seen does not seem to suggest that this is an overstruck example. The only overstruck Xinjiang example that I am aware is the Uighurstan 20 cash over Xinjiang 10 cash.
Some thoughts on this or some reference book I should be getting?
Posted 06/18/2021 10:27 pm
