Posted 09/17/2010 10:29 am
I can say without question that it's fake. The denomination written in Chinese around the bottom is "One Silver Tael". A tael was an old Chinese unit of weight, equivalent to about 33 to 37 grams, depending on which part of China you were from. But 26 grams is much too light for anybody's tael.
Coins with the "two dragons" design such as the one myestate posted in this thread were never actually issued for circulation; they were scarce patterns produced in Birmingham, England, and never actually made it to China; the Chinese government decided to issue coins denominated in dollars instead of taels.
Coins with the "two dragons" design such as the one myestate posted in this thread were never actually issued for circulation; they were scarce patterns produced in Birmingham, England, and never actually made it to China; the Chinese government decided to issue coins denominated in dollars instead of taels.
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
