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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 7855771, member: 78244&quot;]Hi. Resident expert in Chinese material. I’ll try to help you where I can.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sure! From my collection:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1353493[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is not. The whole coin is very crude, and the two characters on the handle are raised rather than incuse and inlaid with gold.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It’s actually a very obviously modern patina. Electric blue and pasty green are very bad and never seen on genuine coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Most are uncertified, but there are 6 grading companies that certify Chinese coins. 1 is in the US (ANACS), 1 is in Hong Kong, 1 is in Singapore, and 3 are in China.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Many of them are fake.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not the best pic, but looks much more genuine than yours.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That one is clearly a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I can for the most part. There are several others whose opinions I would weigh heavily.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>100% accurate.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>ANACS kinda offers this service. I’ll be trying to get something similar in the US (specializing in Chinese) in the nearish future (this decade, hopefully).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Both are forgeries. (EDIT: second one might be genuine upon second look. Not sure from the pics. It still looks weird.) Here is mine, which is authentic:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1353494[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I find the opposite to be the case. Yours have the weird patina and the characters are very thick and crude. That is wholly unlike a genuine coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I encourage new collectors to either stick to highly-trusted sources or find another collecting area altogether. Prices are also skyrocketing like cryptocurrency, which makes it a much riskier and unstable market to enter.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are literally billions of genuine coins to be chosen from. The tricky part is identifying them as genuine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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