the bottom picture is the front (obverse) of the coin, and it is upside down in your picture. that being said, you have a cast chinese coin from the qian long reign (1736-1795), minted at the board of works in peking. very common coin, and are usually sold for $1 or less.
Thanks a lot. I've found it online. http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=17597&cat=17
Its weird how disoriented you get when people post these wrong side up huh? Reminds me of an exhibit the Iowa ANA used to put out, (maybe they still do). In it they had some cash coins, and the first time I saw it I told the guy they had it upside down. He told me that coin had been in the exhibit 20 years, and no one ever noticed. Guess this shows there are not a lot of Chinese Cash collectors in Iowa, or they never look at exhibits at shows.
i don't think there's a lot of chinese cash collectors anywhere, but the last place i'd look for one is in iowa. lol.
There are millions of Chinese cash collectors. Many of them are in China. My experience is that exhibits and lectures at shows are largely a waste of time. People are there to buy and sell coins and relatively few even look at coins not for sale. A few years ago I was hurt when I gave a program at a show which was attended by only a handful of people. I was told that my crowd of a half dozen was larger than a couple other talks drew. People don't take an hour out of show time to listen to programs. It is the same with exhibits. Time spent looking at them is time not spent buying and selling.
I read about unattended lectures all the time on the PCGS message boards. Last year I a collector said only 1 person showed up. Im sure the internet has hurt people attending them too. Why goto a lecture in person when all you have to do is goto a messageboard & ask a question or search Google. :/
While I have enjoyed live programs, I believe coin shows are the worst times to have them simply because of time constraints. When I have driven a couple hours to a show and face the same return trip or when I have taken a charter bus with a club group, I am lucky to have time to see all of the dealers I want to visit without taking time out. When I go to a big show like Baltimore, I don't find time for lunch. The advantage of the Internet is that you can do it whenever time allows for a few seconds or all day and night as your life allows. When I lived in a larger city with an ancient coin club, I found the programs at meetings quite valuable but that was because they were scheduled on days without other things (like coin shopping) to do. Exhibits and programs at shows are scheduled by people whose hobby is show planning. They attend their shows for three consecutive days and spend much of the time planning the next show. Most of us go to a show one day out of the run. I recall dealers saying that they were sorry they couldn't come to a program but they had to stay at their tables and sell coins. However wonderful my talk may have been, it is never worth missing a $1000 sale or chance to buy a collection from someone getting rid of grandpa's collection.
Yeah, I think I had about 6 people at most of my lectures. We used to put on informational lectures during the DM coin club show, especially when we were hosting the state convention. I was optimistic once, and put together an article about Wang Mang along with David Hartill's Wang Mang listings, (got permission from both authors), along with a real Wang Mang coin attached to the packet. I think I still have 24 of the 30 packets I prepared in my basement somewhere.
