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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brassnautilus, post: 2282973, member: 74300&quot;]if by &quot;Commemorative&quot; you meant having text the earliest chinese examples of those should be the short/fat type of bubi (shovel coin), predates knife coins by around 3 centuries. Metal shell coins predated those by another 5 centuries and there were a few with inscriptions I thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>Problem with Chinese coins is that they were all casts. Too hard to tell fakes and the Chinese didn&#039;t became good forgers just yesterday<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie68" alt=":nurse:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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