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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 3495349, member: 81887&quot;]The Japanese coins are correctly ID&#039;d thanks to [USER=71642]@Stork[/USER].&nbsp; The remaining three coins are all from China, during the last dynasty, the Qing or Manchu.&nbsp; The Qing were originally from the region of Manchuria, and their coins used mintmarks in the Manchu script on the reverse.&nbsp; Similar coins, which were cast and had a square hole in them, were first made in China over 2000 years ago and continued (with changes in&nbsp; the inscription) until the end of the Empire.&nbsp; More details:</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin 2.&nbsp; Should be rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise (both sides).&nbsp; The Qianlong emperor (1736-1795), Board of Works mint in Beijing.&nbsp; The most common mintmarks for Qing coins are Board of Works and Board of Revenue, both of which were in Beijing; many other provincial mints also made coins.&nbsp; There are a lot of subtle varieties, based on details of how the characters are written; I think your coin is Hartill 22.268-270, which was issued posthumously in 1800.&nbsp; Hartill rarity scale 14 (Very Common).</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin 3.&nbsp; Obverse is correct orientation, reverse is upside-down.&nbsp; The Guangxi emperor (1875-1908).&nbsp; Guangzhou mint in Guangdong province. This coin is machine-struck rather than cast, as modern mint machinery was introduced to China at this time (but casting of coins also continued on a limited scale up until the beginning of the Republic, alongside machine-struck coinage- some habits are hard to break).&nbsp; Hartill 22.1334, issued 1889-1890.&nbsp; Rarity 15 (Very Common).</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin 5.&nbsp; Should be rotated 90 degrees clockwise.&nbsp; Kangxi emperor (1662-1722).&nbsp; Jiangning (Nanking) mint.&nbsp; Hartill 22.119, issued 1662-1670.&nbsp; The reverse has the mintmark &quot;Ning&quot; in both Manchu script and standard Chinese script.&nbsp; Rarity 15 (Very Common).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, nothing rare or valuable, but some very cool and interesting and historical coins nonetheless.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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