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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 1115037, member: 4373&quot;]It know it&#039;s tough to read foreign characters and here&#039;s a table that I made a while ago: </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.gxseries.com/numis/asian_yr/asian_table.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at the second character on the left, you think you&#039;ll see the number &quot;five&quot;. Unfortunately,there were no coins struck in year five but only in year three. That would make sense as coins were struck in year three (1914). It does look like a year &quot;three&quot; modified to a year &quot;five&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>The history of Chinese counterfeit coins go well beyond 2000 BC - as long as it&#039;s profitable, counterfeiters will always do it. Therefore you can&#039;t assume that it&#039;s genuine unless you really know what you are looking at. Having a coin in a collection for more than 50 years or longer doesn&#039;t automatically mean that it&#039;s genuine - it could well been a counterfeit that circulated back in those days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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