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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4509596, member: 93416&quot;]I am not really the guy you need, but here are some thoughts to start the ball rolling. Have you ever looked inside of a copy of Werner Burger’s “Ching Cash”? One passed through my hands many years back, and my first thought when looking inside was that the guy was insane. Hundreds of cash coins all attributed not only to different mints but also to different years at each mint. And they all looked the same to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a link to an article on him</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2116027/coin-stash-puts-new-spin-chinas-100-years" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2116027/coin-stash-puts-new-spin-chinas-100-years" rel="nofollow">https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2116027/coin-stash-puts-new-spin-chinas-100-years</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Excerpt: “He let me have 70 bags full of coins, each about 100kg,” Burger says. “I could choose whatever I wanted. The rest he used as scrap metal. This was the basis of my collection, and it was 95 to 96 per cent Qing coins.” Lau’s gift was a stroke of luck. “I had enough coins to do what nobody else had done,” Burger says. “Arrange the coins year by year.”</p><p><br /></p><p>So maybe he was sane, but I figured only one guy in a million would look at those coins and say – hey – there are loads of different sorts! And I was not that guy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hartill was quite a step from Schjoth when it came out. Some people had got so used to the old Schjoth numbers that they gave up collecting Chinese coins in disgust when Hartill appeared. For myself, I was kind of disappointed to see the old Wade-Giles names go. But Hartill was welcome because there were a few quite common cash coins that were not in Scjoth. And loads more spades in Hartill. And with Schjoth, people would think their own S. 630 that was fake, when really, it was Schjoths 630 that was (an obvious) fake. Etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhow – getting to your point. I believe that for major N. Sung cash issues there are people who claim at peak there were 26 different mints running and they can distinguish all 26 by calligraphic appearance. But if you look in Hartill you will tend to find only three varieties even for common issues and even they difficult to tell apart from his illustrations. So for my part - I do not bother with his minor variations. But chacun son goût</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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