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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 187319, member: 669&quot;]<img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/schilder/142.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> to CoinTalk Bvilleboy, and especially welcome to one of the most difficult areas of our wonderful hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cash coins have been cast in China, Japan, Korea and Annam (present day Vietnam) for well over a millenium, through the early to mid-20th Century.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many excellent reference works, but only two of them are in English.&nbsp; One is Schjoth&#039;s <i>Currency of the Far East</i>, essentially a catalog of his own extremely extensive collection.&nbsp; If you are an ANA member you can borrow Schjoth from the ANA library.&nbsp; It occasionally shows up in Amazon.com&#039;s used book listings, but it is very expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other is <i>Fisher&#039;s Ding</i>, a translation of Ding Fubao&#039;s massive collection of coin tracings and line drawings.&nbsp; My copy was acquired on EBay a few years ago at a reasonable price - about $50 if I recall correctly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even for using Schjoth or Fisher, a knowledge of the Chinese characters used on the coins (including their Japanese/Korean pronunciations) is invaluable.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have some general familiarity with the field, but I am very far from being an expert.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are right about the obverse of your second coin being sideways - specifically it needs to be rotated 90 degrees to the right.&nbsp; The obverse of your first coin is upside down, so it can be rotated 180 degrees in either direction.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect that both of your pieces are in fact temple charms rather than money, but again, I&#039;m no expert.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck with your research and studies. :thumb:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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