Can anyone help me to identify this coin? I had really wanted to know the composition and if it's worth anything.
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Are you sure it's real? Looks exactly like my Fake Fat Man coin. The real ones sell for good money but I don't remember how much. Just do a quick search on ebay.
I inherited it from my grandfather who once went to China. And it might be a fake but i'm not exactly sure. I dont know what it is and i cant read chinese so i haven't been able to look it up.
Okay, i just put one on there. It was just a cheap magnet i took out of the back of a fridge magnet but it stuck to it (not sure if not being a rare earth magnet makes a difference). I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing though.
That's likely a bad thing. The coin that I was thinking it was is a 1914 Republic of China Dollar (Yuan), but those are made of silver. Magnets don't stick to silver.
Sorry to say old man, but if a magnet sticks to the coin it's definitely a fake. It's probably made of steel and worth about a buck as a souvenir.
So that is pretty much your answer. A lot of the older asian coins seem to be counterfeit and the magnet test is one of the easiest and quickest ways to see if the coin is not real.
i just copied and pasted what you think it is into a google search and it looked the same other than a few of the characters on the top were different and mine had 7 while the others had 6. And mine was magnetic i guess this means mine is a fake. Thank you for the help everyone!
I believe that's a 1993 Mexico 10 Nuevo Pesos. KM #553. 47,981,000 were minted. 27.95mm diameter. It has an 0.925 silver center, a total of 0.1667 oz of silver weight. Does the diameter match up?
