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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 122649, member: 669&quot;]<img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/schilder/142.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> to CoinTalk young man. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Visit your local public library&#039;s reference section, which probably has the Standard Catalog of World Coins, by Krause &amp; Mishler, 19th Century Ed.&nbsp; If not, ask the libararian to get it for you on inter-library loan (impress her by knowing the right terminology <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )</p><p><br /></p><p>What you have are mostly Chinese Imperial Provincial coins, about which there is a great deal of information in the SCWC.</p><p><br /></p><p>You also want to check the 20th/21st Century edition.&nbsp; Your &quot;bald slightly chubby&quot; gentlemen is one of several possibilities - either one of the self-proclaimed &quot;Emperors&quot; from the turbulent first decade of the 20th Century, when the Empire was falling apart and the Republic was in the process of being born, or possibly a hero of the early Republicans like Sun Yat Sen or Chiang Kai Shek. One of my favorite features of world coin collecting is the opportunities it gives to learn a great deal of interesting history in the course of researching coins.<img src="http://forums.collectors.com/i/expressions/dancing%20smiley.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you can post pictures, we may be able to give you more specific information on your coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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