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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 1788131, member: 4373&quot;]It&#039;s ok Medoraman - at least you remembered that I exist on this forum. You might be able to guess that I diversity over all kinds (except ancients) and I&#039;m slowly bunching into Chinese cash coins. I guess the other areas that I diversified into are getting too expensive hence I&#039;m poking my head into this area. (might be looking for trouble?)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I was lucky to obtain these a few years ago. These coins were issued during the chaotic Taiping Rebellion where inflation just blew out of control.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/981054.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/981053.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Weighting at 35.1 and 35.6 grams respectively. These are a lot larger than the standard cash and this is an example to compare their size</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/764/cashsize.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I think the Lincoln cent is slightly smaller than the Australian 5 cent but you get the picture - it&#039;s clearly larger than any cash coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Funnily enough, I didn&#039;t think much of them. Why did I get them then? Because they looked the most funky out of the junk coin lot and I knew at that time they were larger than standard cash coin. Plus it wasn&#039;t that expensive back then - I was a kitchenhand and I wasn&#039;t earning a fortune.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s an article if you are interested in them. <a href="http://www.thecurrencycollector.com/pdfs/Taiping_Rebellion_Money_Part_I-b.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thecurrencycollector.com/pdfs/Taiping_Rebellion_Money_Part_I-b.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.thecurrencycollector.com/pdfs/Taiping_Rebellion_Money_Part_I-b.pdf</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sneaky preview: I do have an entire set of the Chinese poem coins coming in. More information can be seen here: <a href="http://ykleungn.tripod.com/kanghsia.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ykleungn.tripod.com/kanghsia.htm" rel="nofollow">http://ykleungn.tripod.com/kanghsia.htm</a> This is a lot more difficult than what many think. Just when I bought these coins recently, some of these coins that I&#039;ve been watching have gone up quite rapidly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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