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Edited by Bill661
07/27/2021 01:02 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Suppose is the Fatman dollar of China. Yuan Shikai, but the ideograms above is Mongolian text? Reverse has the traditional Chinese character One Yuan. It has the appearance of strike forgery, especially around the rim, more then likely there's no silver.
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Hello,
I will admit that I don't know a lot about this coin, but I have done a little research. It appears to be a 1914 Chinese one dollar coin. I am unsure if it is a fake, maybe another member could help you. It is about 0.755 Troy ounces of silver. A very nice coin to own.
I hope this helps.
Coinanthebarbarian
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Translation at the top of the coin:-
"nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah"
Forgive me of my ignorance - I have never seen anything like this before.
The scrips appears to be Thai. Maybe someone else on this Forum may be able to shed a little more light, with Thai as a prompt.
Most probably some sort of commercial fantasy, and most probably in less than good silver, and maybe? silver plated.
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Thanks for your input. Now I know more about this coin.
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@bill, first welcome to CCF. Second, to help better characterize this piece, can you please list the weight and whether it is attracted to a magnet? Thx.
"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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Translation at the top of the coin:-
"nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah"
Forgive me of my ignorance - I have never seen anything like this before.
The scrips appears to be Thai. Maybe someone else on this Forum may be able to shed a little more light, with Thai as a prompt. It's not Thai. Or any other script, because, it's not language. It's five pictures of bats. In China, bats are considered lucky because in traditional Chinese, the character for "bat" is pronounced the same as the character for "good fortune" (fu). On Chinese charms, five bats symbolize the "five good fortunes": longevity, wealth, health, virtuous love and dying a peaceful death in old age. So this is not a real coin, but a "fantasy dollar" charm. It's not technically a "fake", since no genuine coin ever looked like this. And it is 100% not made of silver - these fantasy dollars never are. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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How the heck I didn't think of that? Bats!#34656; and "good fortune" #31119; has the same pronunciation. Five bats fortune #20116;#31119;#26519;#38272;.
Edit: wonder why the Chinese characters always come out with #numbers.
Edited by macmercury
07/28/2021 12:59 am
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Edit: wonder why the Chinese characters always come out with #numbers. Because the forum does not support it. |
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For Sap:-
Thanks for the info. I am a little more enlightened.
As a consolation, I realise that some sorts of exonummia are perhaps collectible.
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Thanks for your input. Now I know more about this coin.
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