I got this set for $10, It's a mint set from Taiwan, but not sure what year, or what catalog number. In my book, it only lists two sets with only 4 coins, ms1 and ps1. I don't think it is ps1, since the coins aren't proof.
Either you or the OP @kforbes862 needs to click on the "Report" button and ask one of the Mods to, either, delete or combine the threads. I've grown tired of doing it. Chris
Done. And yes, reporting a duplicate post or topic does not take more time than mentioning it here. It does not hurt either.
Sorry about the duplicate post. Here are pictures, I tried uploading them from my phone when I made the post and it wouldn't upload.
I think you have a Taiwanese (Republic of China) 1971 (Year 60) set. I could not find one of these with a simple Chinese character Google search, nor was it in Krause, which is not surprising. Hmm.
Is it common for these sets to not be in Krause? On the red packaging it came in, I'm assuming original, on one side it has black drawings of one side of the coins, and on the other, a man with a cane, and says, Taiwan subsidiary coin set.
Very common, from my experience for the Standard Catalog of World Coins NOT to list every mint set. They're trying to cover the whole world, for goodness sakes! They're bound to make errors. Micro-focused collectors (like me) will often obtain better information about a single country's coinage than Krause publishes. The real problem with the Krause catalog is that they do not update their information well enough, or even have a way to back up the claims that they DO make in their catalogue. Not sure what your red slipcover wording means... This certainly does not look like your typical "tourist" tchotchke set that was slapped together in the hundreds by some fly-by-night operation to sell at some stall in a crowded tourist attraction. It looks like an official Bank of China (Taiwan) product, due to the quality of the hardcase and the decent strike and condition of the coins inside. "Subsidiary" might mean that a company was given permission to assemble these sets in lieu of the Bank?
