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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 1817060, member: 42634&quot;]got several quing&nbsp; chinese coins from my good coin buddy ENG!</p><p><br /></p><p>in addition to a couple of milled late quing coins (these are from 1906-1910), like this one..</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/1c3aeefd-2f03-4e27-b9cc-d7437dd05424_zps2a68eef2.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/1c3aeefd-2f03-4e27-b9cc-d7437dd05424_zps2a68eef2.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/1c3aeefd-2f03-4e27-b9cc-d7437dd05424_zps2a68eef2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>and this one..</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/417cb065-6841-479a-8261-bfcedcc2f6e9_zps9a56c60b.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/417cb065-6841-479a-8261-bfcedcc2f6e9_zps9a56c60b.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/417cb065-6841-479a-8261-bfcedcc2f6e9_zps9a56c60b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>i also got these two interesting coins...which i think are cast and not milled?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_4181_zps6949df88.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_4181_zps6949df88.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/102_4181_zps6949df88.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_4186_zpsf3e2d07e.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_4186_zpsf3e2d07e.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/102_4186_zpsf3e2d07e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>both are from the qianlong emperor (chien lung), who ruled from 1736-1795.&nbsp; as i underdand it, the reverse characters show the coins mint. (2nd pic) left is a &quot;boo yuwan&quot; which is &quot;Board of Works mint in Bejing&quot;...i&#039;m not sure what that means?&nbsp;&nbsp; the right is a boo chiowan, whic is &quot;Board of Revenue mint in Bejing&quot;.?</p><p><br /></p><p>the coin on the left is a <font size="4">&quot;qian long tong bao&quot;, i don&#039;t know what the coin on the right is..any ideas?</font>&nbsp; i guess the coin on the right is a &quot;shan lung&quot; type...wich was minted after the emperor abdicated (for his son to take power)in 1795, but before his death in 1799.</p><p><br /></p><p>all the above info came from wikipedia, and these two places...</p><p><br /></p><p>gary&#039;s AWESOME site..</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://primaltrek.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://primaltrek.com/" rel="nofollow">http://primaltrek.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and here..</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/reference.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/reference.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/reference.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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