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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NPCoin, post: 159301, member: 5629&quot;]Yeah, that&#039;s funny.&nbsp; I had put empire in the post the whole time thinking republic.&nbsp; I think I&#039;ve been around coins too long today :goofer: </p><p><br /></p><p>It is definitely not Japanese occ.&nbsp; The possibilities I&#039;m thinking is a tooled Year 37, except the fact that it is not magnetic.&nbsp; I believe that the issues through 1939 were of pure nickel.&nbsp; But, allude to the 10 fen of the year prior to Tiantsin&#039;s occupation (1937) and Tiantsin used a nickel alloy to mint the 10 fen coins of that year, which incidentally were not magnetic.&nbsp; I cannot find any other reference for chinese coins from that era (1936-1941) that had nickel alloy used.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would assume, though, that there would have been some of the metal alloy left over from the Tientsin 10 fen minting that would have had to be used &quot;somewhere&quot;.&nbsp; And it surely was not used after the occupation (1938-1939), until 1940 when a copper-nickel alloy became standard.&nbsp; That would be year 29, where the &#039;9&#039; could have been tooled into a &#039;6&#039;, but I don&#039;t think the 20 fen was minted with the new alloy until year 30.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin has just been bothering me for months.&nbsp; Any additional information is most helpful.&nbsp; Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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