I have a Chinese coin, and I am not sure on the year, I believe it is 1933 or 1934, has anyone seen something similar before?
This is the same coin.. http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=86673 China Republic, AR Yuan, Year 21 (1932) - Junk and birds
Wow, it looks the same almost.sorry Wrong pic, here is a 1934 that looks like it, but I couldn't find a 1933. After the unification of China in 1929, the Nationalists issued silver dollars with Sun Yat-sen's portrait on the obverse and a reverse showing a Chinese junk sailing right. Beforehand a number of patterns were commissioned from Japan, Italy, Austria, the USA and Britain. These are easily distinguished from those issued as currency because the junk is shown sailing to the left. In 1932 the KMT Ministry of Finance announced that the Sun Yat-sen dollar was now the official currency and brought out a new design which showed birds flying over the junk and, more ominously, a rising sun on the right. The coins were unpopular because they seemed to offer support for the Japanese, so the KMT was quickly forced to change the design, omitting both the birds and the rising sun. Rising inflation led the KMT eventually to forbid the circulation of silver dollars in 1935 in favour of a paper currency. The reckless issue of paper money by the Nationalists during the war with Japan triggered off massive inflation and silver dollars were freely traded again because of the lack of public confidence in other money. When the Communists took over in 1949 all silver dollars were recalled and formed no part of the currency during the People's Republic.
That's what always throws me off...one or two symbols that are different, like ok, I know what coin it is, but all I want to know is the year, right? To the best of my knowledge it is silver. Thanks!
Hey guys - The only difference between a 1943D Walking Liberty, and a 1943S Walking Liberty is a single symbol, and if you didn't know how to read the English alphabet you would be in the same shape as the people who can't tell a Chinese "3" from a Chinese "2" with respect to the posted coin. The OP's coin is actually dated Republic of China Year 22, which is 1933CE. The character at roughly 10:00 on all the pictured coins is the last digit of the date.
Sorry..it's Year 23 not 22. The characters read anti-clockwise er (2) shi (10) san (3). That makes the date 1934.
Fascinating Thread Im new to CT and think this is amazing how so many knowledgeable experts lept to the identification of such a coin. And disscuss the characters and history of the coin to boot. Vaming morgans gives me a headache. Im glad to be in such company.
