Guess Uighur can be spelt as Uyghur or East Turkestan Finally found a coin that I like. This is a rather unusual coin that lasted less than one year, hence difficult to find in nicer conditions. If I am not wrong, there is part in Xinjiang that tried to declare independence because of the heavy Muslim population. This area is near the border of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan. More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Turkestan Note that the text is written in Chinese and arabic. This failed 'state' issued coins in two denominations, one being 20 cash and the other 10 cash. All the coins that I have suggest that they were overstruck - this one is overstruck over 10 cash coin like this one: Needless to say, these coins were not very popular with the general Chinese population and were culled or probably extermined immediately by the Communist Chinese party as they will never tolerate any provinces or cities declaring independency. I do have two other 10 cash coins but they are been in olive oil for more than one year due to the extent of corrosion. I should put these two coins shown under conservation.
Nice coins GX. You are correct all Uighur coins are scarce. I have a fairly decent collection of "red cash" and similar. This area ties in nicely with my collection of Sogdian coins, as its the part of China that was the border area between China and Central Asia. Along the Silk Road the Sogdians had many cities built to facilitate trade. Its the one area of China that is not predominantly Chinese. The Uighurs are Turkish, and of course the Sogdians and many other peoples still inhabit the region. Unfortunately I have never extended my collection of Uighur coins past the red cash coins, so don't have coins like yours. Maybe someday. Chris
