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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 277668, member: 4703&quot;]A very interesting piece, with a &quot;1 yuan&quot; denomination bracketing the bust, but not listed in the Standard Catalog of World Coins.&nbsp; It is undated, which was common for coins of the first few years of the Republic.</p><p><br /></p><p>The legend at the top of the obverse <b>very</b> loosely translates as &quot;Father of the Country, China Teacher&quot;, and the reverse legend loosely translates as &quot;Memorial to the Father of the Country&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse border brings to mind the British Trade Dollar which circulated into the early 20th Century.</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is that despite bearing a denomination, it is a medal honoring Dr. Sun Yat Sen.&nbsp; If I had to guess, I would say it was probably issued between his death in 1925 and the flight of Chiang Kai Shek&#039;s Kuo Min Tang Nationalist government to Taiwan in 1949-50.</p><p><br /></p><p>Genuine 1 yuan coins of the early Republic years were crown-sized (38-42mm) and generally weighed slightly less than 27g; matching the Japanese Yen and other silver crowns of the pre-WW II era.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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