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xodusna New Member United States 35 Posts	Posted 08/31/2011 6:36 pm Any help would be great. I am pretty sure they are all China coins but can anyone tell me what dates they are? Also, are they worth anything Report this Post to the Staff

wheatiefan Pillar of the Community United States 508 Posts	Posted 08/31/2011 8:50 pm Not much information from that picture. Hopefully they are not too corroded to get good IDs from. Where did you get the coins from? My go to site for identifying these coins is linked here. Calgary coins website is also helpful. You'll eventually learn to orient the coins and read them. For the last few hundred years, the characters in the east & west (or 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock) positions are the same, so you only have to look at the north and south positions for ID. The side with two characters (or none) is the reverse with the mintmark. Cash coins are usually dated by the presiding emperor. So you might get a date of 1736-1795, but nothing more specific. Hope this helps, -wheatiefan Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16846 Posts	Posted 08/31/2011 8:53 pm I'm afraid I can't see any characters on any of them, except for the VOC (Dutch East Indies) duit dated 1790 at the top. I assume they're all upside-down and supposed to be blank. With no Manchu mintmarks on the back, they're either pre-Qing Chinese (most likely Song Dynasty) or they're Vietnamese. If the Indonesian duit is supposed to go with them, then I'd lean towards Vietnamese. Also I can see one, at upper right, that seems to have a round hole. That one's possibly a Malay States tin cash, or a charm of some kind. 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
xodusna New Member United States 35 Posts	Posted 09/01/2011 6:33 pm Wow, awesome that answers a lot for me, thanks guys! I had no idea about what those symbols meant before this thread lol. Any idea on what the VoC may be worth? Report this Post to the Staff
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