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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 7806405, member: 84905&quot;]I don&#039;t collect Chinese coins and I know next to nothing about them. I have some very rudimentary knowledge from websites like this one:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china3.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china3.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china3.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Even though I don&#039;t collect them, I have many (some 200) Chinese coins, which were gifted to me by the daughter of a deceased Chinese friend. Here is a picture of the lot:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340773[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have sorted them roughly according to dynasties. One box contains non-round coins of all shapes. Some coins I was able to identify with certainty:</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, the two coins below seem to belong to the Northern Zhou Dynasty (AD 557-581), Emperor Hsuan Ti AD 578-580</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340774[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340775[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the reference from the Calgarycoin website</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340776[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t question their coin, but in a direct naive comparison, my examples look a lot more convincing, I think. Put differently, I think had the Calgary coin been offered on Ebay, most people would have shouted &quot;obvious fake&quot;, while it apparently isn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any experts, please step forward <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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