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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 1788069, member: 4373&quot;]I&#039;ll be honest - I&#039;m not the person with regards to cash coins and I&#039;m slowly warming up to them. Some of these cash coin prices are shooting faster than a rocket taking off!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I can see where medoraman is coming from - while I know it&#039;s a seal script plus I&#039;m not familiar with this type of coin, I&#039;m not too sure if I have seen one similar to it. Have to check that out.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The good side of this kind of coins are that they are still affordable but requires a lot of patience identifying them. I personally find the seal and Mongolian script to be challenging. Of course you have coins from Sinkiang (Xinjiang) where some coins are in Arabic scripts. And then you also need to factor in the impact of this particular type of coin - heavily influenced Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia. Wow. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These coins were cast in a lot of metals that you can think of - the usual is copper, lead, iron, silver (scarce), gold (rare), traces of antimony, tin etc. You&#039;ll never know what is in them. I have a small stash of them that I haven&#039;t gone through yet - I know it&#039;s not on omnicoin yet. I just haven&#039;t bothered with them for years. I had an allergic reaction to some of the coins. I didn&#039;t identify which one but it did sting. Now this is very very interesting as I have handled coins in various metals from antimony to zinc. Sounds strange - I&#039;ve handled nickel and cobalt which are the two most common metal that causes allegries. Ever since then, I guess I just left them alone.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What I find it interesting is that the mints / furnances back then had a good idea of metal economics and are very price sensitive over two thousand years of history. They would use any metal at their disposal to cast coinage and this would have an impact on local economy. You&#039;ll have some smarter crooks that would melt down coins with higher copper content for profit (sounds familar?) and recast coins in cheaper bronze / tin alloy. Some coins would look pale yellow to red or rusted color. Bells or even Buddha statues would be melted down just to make coins or vice versa - interesting times.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Wikipedia has a good article - takes a while to go through the whole lot.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Chinese_coinage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Chinese_coinage" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Chinese_coinage</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ll have some Chinese cash coins coming up for discussion. Probably not as great as chrsmat71&#039;s collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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