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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coinman1234, post: 2080810, member: 51208&quot;]All except for coin 1 are real and it looks like a charm, they are from 1662-1796 depending on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin 5 and 6 are from 1662-1722</p><p>Coin 2 is from circa 1796</p><p>Coin 3 is from 1736-1795</p><p>Coin 4 is from 1862-1874</p><p>Coin 2 and 3 belong to the same ruler, Ch&#039;ien-lung, but coin two was struck after the ruler&#039;s abdication in 1795 until 1799, whereas coin 3 was struck during his actual reign.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin 5 and 6 were struck in the reign of Sheng Tsu between 1662 and 1722</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin 4 was struck in the reign of T&#039;ung Chih</p><p><br /></p><p>None of these coin are very expensive, maybe $1, maybe $2 each (I pay a quarter each at my coin shop, even 25 cents for the medieval coinage). But they are still very cool in a historical aspect. Considering that they made so many over a course of an entire reign, without any specific dates on the coin, these coins are not very rare. No one would counterfeit them due to how common they are.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is helpful a website on these coins</p><p><a href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china8.htm#tung" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china8.htm#tung" rel="nofollow">http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china8.htm#tung</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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