I did a little online research but still need some help. I am trying to find out if these two and 4 others I got from an estate sale are real. The yuan has a smooth rim and weighs 27 grams. The junk weighs 26.5 grams and has a reeded rim. Any information, like dates names and if they are real would be appreciated. thanks in advance, Jason.
Your Junk (Chinese boat, not "trash") Dollar is dated Republic Year 21 (1932), and is a blatant fake! That year the 26.7g .8800 silver Junk coins (Y#344) had three geese flying above the boat, not superimposed on the water; and a rising sun. Several varieties, with most of the differences on the reverse, were minted through 1934. (30-million more were struck at the three U.S. Mints in 1949 from the 1934 dies.) The bust is, of course, early revolutionary leader and then-President Sun Yat Sen. Your "Fat Man" coin has a bust of Yuan Shi Kai, the Imperial General who defected to the rebellion and was installed (briefly) as the "founding" Emperor of a new Dynasty, after first serving as the first President of the Republic. Yours pretends to be Y#329.6, dated Republic Year 8 (1919). Other varieties of the 26.4g .8900 silver coin, all dated Republic Year 3 (1914). have different edges - reeded, plain, with alternating "T"s, and circles.
