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<p>[QUOTE="gxseries, post: 1513340, member: 4373"]I was saving this particular coin from a heavy verdigris damage which took me more than half a year to deal with - some of the coins have been in olive oil bath more than one year (changing them out when need be).</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was completely covered in green - if you look them up on ebay, you can see good examples of them full of verdigris damage. This one turned out to be ok after conservation. Didn't pay a lot for it back then.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/1010902.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I found the string like damage to be interesting. You can actually look through it. Note, this is a cast coin. The Chinese call it the "sand variety". Maybe to describe the coarse details of the "coin"?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a similar coin but struck.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/990878.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Note the resemblence?</p><p><br /></p><p>If I am not wrong, the second coin is actually the original coin that circulated, originated from Shanxi Province. The first coin however seems to be a comtempory counterfeit issued by Chinese warlord in Gansu Province. I haven't got to the point of researching how bad the Gansu economy became but I'm suspecting that because they needed a lot of money to finance, possibly military.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both coins are actually quite easy to obtain and you don't have to fork out a lot of money to collect interesting pieces of history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gxseries, post: 1513340, member: 4373"]I was saving this particular coin from a heavy verdigris damage which took me more than half a year to deal with - some of the coins have been in olive oil bath more than one year (changing them out when need be). This coin was completely covered in green - if you look them up on ebay, you can see good examples of them full of verdigris damage. This one turned out to be ok after conservation. Didn't pay a lot for it back then. [img]http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/1010902.jpg[/img] I found the string like damage to be interesting. You can actually look through it. Note, this is a cast coin. The Chinese call it the "sand variety". Maybe to describe the coarse details of the "coin"? Here's a similar coin but struck. [img]http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/990878.jpg[/img] Note the resemblence? If I am not wrong, the second coin is actually the original coin that circulated, originated from Shanxi Province. The first coin however seems to be a comtempory counterfeit issued by Chinese warlord in Gansu Province. I haven't got to the point of researching how bad the Gansu economy became but I'm suspecting that because they needed a lot of money to finance, possibly military. Both coins are actually quite easy to obtain and you don't have to fork out a lot of money to collect interesting pieces of history.[/QUOTE]
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