Posted 01/15/2024 8:03 pm
It is from China, but not the piece of China directly owned by the British. The denomination is 10 cash, equivalent to 1 cent. The date is written in cyclical calendar, and converts to AD 1909.
This series of Chinese copper coins has the province mintmark stamped inside the circle on the Chinese-language side. In this case, the mintmark is Szechuan (Sichuan) province.
Chinese machine-struck coinage from this period comes in a bewildering array of varieties, some of which can be quite valuable but the series is not well documented in English-language catalogues. Here's the NGC entry for the basic variety.
This series of Chinese copper coins has the province mintmark stamped inside the circle on the Chinese-language side. In this case, the mintmark is Szechuan (Sichuan) province.
Chinese machine-struck coinage from this period comes in a bewildering array of varieties, some of which can be quite valuable but the series is not well documented in English-language catalogues. Here's the NGC entry for the basic variety.
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