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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5423035, member: 19463&quot;]A question: Are coins of this period readable to people for whom modern Chinese dialects are a primary language?&nbsp; Showing this coin to an elementary school boy who collects coins can produce an ID &#039;Yuan Feng&#039; and he is aware of things like the meaning of tong bao etc.&nbsp; To some of us, it is mostly a mystery.&nbsp; If you showed this coin to the man on the street in Beijing, would he be able to read it or is the language more like Latin is to English speakers?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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