China 10 Cash Coins - Is My Identification Right?

Your identification is correct, only thing which is strange is the top one; the 'Kuang' word is missing a stroke on the top left ?
Never seen it with a stroke missing like that before.

SydneyG

I hope you enjoy the forum. There are people here that you do not find everyday - like those that read Chinese. I do not by the way. English, Latin, French and Spanish is my limit.

I collect contemporary circulating counterfeit coins specializing in Mexican 8 reales. My current focus is the Cap and Ray series of counterfeit 8 Reales. So my area of interest is fakes of a single series of dollar sized silver coins that were produced for only 74 years. A slightly narrow field of interest but I have located over 3,000 different counterfeit varieties of that one series. It is likely one of the largest collections of that one type that exists on earth.

Here is an example:

So if you ever see or hear of one please write.

I have never met a counterfeit I didn't like.

SydneyG The 1893 8Rs are not often encountered as Contemporary Circulating Counterfeits. Those that I own are all very easy to spot just by weight. Electroplated base metals cast or struck using transfer images seems to be the only technology employed.

For a very long time, forgers producing fakes for the numismatic market seemed to have avoided the coinage of the 1890s - I presume because there was no margin and the standard design was difficult to achieve correctly.

However, recently a new generation of numismatic forgeries have appeared that include the 1893 8R's from the Go, Mo and Zs mints which have very accurate weights and very clean looking images. Most are off metal and the planchets are made thicker to compensate for weight. These can be easily detected by SG testing or by observing the surfaces closely at 40X. Some serious errors remain but they can pass a quick inspection. A few are made by copying a genuine coin with a computer assisted laser engraver of some type. The Engraver makes an accurate copy of each face in relief which is then used to make a temperature resistant mold used for injection casting. I believe this technology will be improved to make ever smaller pixilation marks on the copy. Right now they are visible easily at 40X. How small they will be able to go is anybody's guess.

Always be cautious.

@swamperbob Thank you for the interesing reply. I had not thought about it before but I can now see how interesting collecting counterfeit coins can be. The associated detective work and interpretation does take it to another level!