Unknown China coins

Here are 3 coins from China out of my collection. I belive that they are each one cash, but I do not know the date. My coin book goes from 1901 to 2000 and it has alot of coin from China that look almost identical, but the symbols are alittle different in the book. It could just be the date. I don't know which symbol is the date! Can someone please help? I will be glad to answer any questions! The first coin is 24mm. The second 23mm. And the third 22mm.

 

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the sure do have the pitted fuzzy look of cast coins.

 

those are 3 one cash coins.

 

Cash coins are undated. All date attributions are based on the legends which generally identify the emperor or regional official who authorized them, and the mint where they were cast.

On all three of your coins the pictures on the left have legends in Manchu script, and the pictures on the right have legends in Chinese characters. For people like me who don't read Manchu or Chinese, and are not intimately familiar with the coins, specific identification is a time consuming and laborious process of comparing pictures with various sources.

 

Can you tell from the symbols what period they are from?

 

Thats because they ARE cast. Almost all of them were originally.

 

My guess is 17th-19th Century, but I haven't taken the time to compare them with the hundreds of images in Fisher's Ding and other references.

Such coins were cast for over 1,000 years, up until roughly WW I times.

 

oops well, i was right then

thanks for filling me in! i dont know an awfull lot about the makings of world coinage ... yet but slowly ...

 

Could you show both sides of each coin?

 

I have both sides of all 3 coin, but for some reason they are not loading.

Here I will try it again!:thumb:

 

#2 and #3 are one cash, Qing dynasty, Qian Long, 1736-1795, Board of Revenue mint.
#1 is one cash, Qing dynasty, Jia Qing, 1796-1820, Board of Revenue mint.

(And no, it wasn't me who ID'ed them -I'm not that good!)