Found this foreign coin while going through a bunch of them. I am attempting to identify a bunch of foreign coins, most likely from china. It is just cool I showed an LMC with a clipped planchet and then I see this, what I believe to be a clipped planchet on a foreign coin. All the coins seem to be from the early 1900's. I will put full coin pictures below this post from my phone. Anyway... I have no idea which is the obverse or reverse... I have taken a picture of both the bottom (which has the clip) and the top of each side. I believe you can see the Blakesley Effect with this coin... More pictures to follow. ~Rob
And an edge view... Sorry three different posts for this coin... I forgot to get an edge view in the first post... ~Rob
Yes, it appears that it is indeed a minor clipped planchet. It's a Chinese Republic coin from the early 1900s; likely dating from the 'teens to 1920-ish, so it's about a hundred years old. I will leave it to the more seasoned respondents to give you the exact attribution. The clip is cool but not likely worth much of a premium. Not very valuable monetarily, but it's a neat find nonetheless. Sounds like it came from a fun lot, too. I love those older World coin bulk lots.
My grandfather was a Merchant Marine in WWII on a salvage ship... following the naval battles in the pacific to salvage whatever metal they could... US and Japanese ships alike. He spent a lot of time in the Pacific Theater so much of the coins are Asian and British Empire, early 1900's. I have the coin posted in the World Coins section of this site to see if anyone can help identifying it. It was just cool to me to see a clipped planchet on such a coin. Thanks Lord ~Rob
I've had several small hoards which came from WW2 Merchant Mariners. They are usually pretty interesting. I bought one which was heavy on South Africa and British India, which included a key date or two and had some really nicely toned pieces, once.
Yeah, have one S. African coin and several India coins... Where do you go to determine key dates or errors and such? ~Rob
You need the Krause Standard catalog, though the free online NGC database (which is based upon Krause prices) will do in a pinch, though its interface is not especially user-friendly and does have some glitches. Numista is also quite handy.
One way to identify Chinese coins and stamps is the character that looks like a rectangle with a line through it, sort of like the Greek letter phi (Φ), which yours has near the top of your 4th and 5th photos.
