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tumbleweedtrumpet Pillar of the Community United States 1418 Posts	Posted 10/16/2009 8:26 pm I will try to get my camera working. In the mean time, I have an old Chinese (?) coin that is round, has a square hole in the center, on one side has 4 symbols, 1 on each side of the square, and on the other side, there is 2 symbols across from each other. Please help. Identified - moved to World Coins forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 10/16/2009 8:59 pm The only thing I can tell you without a picture is that it's probably a Chinese cash coin. This style has been produced for over a thousand years. Report this Post to the Staff
tumbleweedtrumpet Pillar of the Community United States 1418 Posts	Posted 10/16/2009 9:14 pm http://www.sportstune.com/chinese/i...44row1c5.jpg this is it-Thanks Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 10/16/2009 9:27 pm Your coin appears to be from the Emperor Sheng Tsu, From the K'ang Hsi period 1662-1722. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16849 Posts	Posted 10/16/2009 9:37 pm This coin is from the Kangxi emperor of China (spelled "K'ang Hsi" in the Krause catalogues) who reigned from 1662 to 1723, the longest reign of any of the Chinese emperors, and the Empire was prosperous at the time. As such, his coins are among the commonest coins of any type, anywhere in the world. The four Chinese characters around the hold say, reading top-bottom-right-left, "Kang Xi Tong Bao" meaning "Kang Xi current coin". The two squiggly symbols on the other side are the mint name, written in Manchu script rather than Chinese. In this case, it's from one of the two central mints in Beijing: the Board of Revenue mint. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
hc8604 Valued Member United States 303 Posts	Posted 10/17/2009 8:12 pm Hopefully you matched the characters correctly and didn't choose the first cash coin you saw..? Report this Post to the Staff
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