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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;otlichnik, post: 5426189, member: 109731&quot;]Kevin, What is the diameter and weight of your coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>I ask because there are other coins that use the same characters but were different sizes - mostly smaller - and issued in different places and times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just yesterday I was cataloguing some of my own 16th century Vietnamese copies of this same coin - they are know as Nguyen Phong Thong Bao (the Vietnamese names for the characters - the Vietnamese used Chinese characters for their own language before switching the the modified Latin alphabet created for the by French Jesuit priests).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mine are small coins, know as An Phap group, and are 21-22 mm diameter, 1.4-1.9 grams.&nbsp; Northern Song Yuan Feng Tong Bao (YFTB) coins, by contrast, will be roughly 24-25.5 mm diameter and 3-4 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours uses the N Song design of Yuan, which differs from the Vietnamese design of Nguyen, so I doubt yours is an An Phap group coin.&nbsp; But if particularly light or small it could be something different from a proper YFTB.</p><p><br /></p><p>SC[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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