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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 272151, member: 4703&quot;]It is an early milled Imperial coin, lacking a western date, but possibly bearing a Chinese cyclical date from the period 1890-1910.&nbsp; The denomination appears to be the fairly common 7 candareens 2 mace, also sometimes referred to as a &quot;dollar&quot; or &quot;yuan&quot;, as they were the typical 27+/- grams of .900 silver used for Japanese yen, US dollars, etc., in that historical period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similar coins were issued by the Imperial government, and by various Imperial era provincial issuers, and precise ID requires a much greater command of written Chinese than I can claim.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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