Chinese? | Two 19th Century Cash Coins

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stratocaster Valued Member United Kingdom 240 Posts	Posted 08/22/2010 3:41 pm Please help me with these coins: Identified - moved to World Coins forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

wd1040 Pillar of the Community United States 3098 Posts	Posted 08/22/2010 4:02 pm First one is Daoguang Emperor, looks like Yunnan Mint (you have the reverse with the Manchu script flipped) Second is Xianfeng Emperor, Beijing Board of Public Works (you have both sides flipped) Report this Post to the Staff
stratocaster Valued Member United Kingdom 240 Posts	Posted 08/23/2010 05:05 am Thanks a lot wd1040! I realy appreciate this, I'm a cmplete noob to Chinese coins. Do they have a denomination? Do you have any other information about them? Edited by stratocaster 08/23/2010 05:09 am Report this Post to the Staff
coinsnpaper Valued Member Canada 480 Posts	Posted 08/27/2010 05:14 am These are 1 cash coins- 1,000 officially equal to a Chinese 1 ounce silver, or Tael (.72 tael= 1 dollar). Actually 920-960 cash= 1 tael. Top coin is Tao Kuang (Daoguang) reign title of 1821-1850 (top and bottom characters), Tung mintmark of Tungch'uan, Yunnan Province. Reign titles are in Cantonese or (mandarin) transliterations- they are the same emperors. Bottom coin is Hsien Feng (Xianfeng) reign title of 1851-1861, Yun mint mark of Yunnan-Fu, Yunnan Province. Yunnan is the furthest South-West province of China, very hot, and the coins tend to have a thinner, less proper writing style, which these do. The top coins has a decided silvery appearance, which may be a scarce tin ( or zinc, or lead) coin, rather than the regular brass or copper issue. The Yunnan coins tended to be red copper, instead of brass, and the tin/lead/zinc composition was a little more common here. Top left, and both bottom coins are upside down. Report this Post to the Staff
stratocaster Valued Member United Kingdom 240 Posts	Posted 09/19/2010 08:27 am coinsnpaper, Thank you that was realy useful! Both coins are actualy dark brown (more like the second one), it is just the picture giving the silvery appearance. Report this Post to the Staff
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