Have this Chinese coin. All I know is from a search that it's from 1870 . Need ID please ( Denomination, Value ) . Thanks in advance .
Denomination is.. 7 mace and 2 Candereens. https://en.ucoin.net/coin/china_empire-7-mace-2-candareens-1890/?tid=82219
I'm not liking the looks of it appears to be fake to me,old coins particularly dragons are highly faked and counterfeited.
Your example has plenty of detail and looks just fine.The op's coin a different time period and design has a mushy cast like appearance to it but it does have chop marks.The dark color around the coin also signals a cast metal fake.
Are real Chinese coins really worth much? I don't buy any foreign coins (except from Canada) mainly because it would take a life time of study to learn anything about them, as well as the antique coins from Rome, etc. Not that they aren't nice, I'm just too old to learn much about foreign and antique coins.
A lot of the silvers have shot up in price remarkably in the last 25 years. Counterfeiters have noticed and make fake ones in huge quantities. More common types of coppers are still pretty affordable.
