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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 101672, member: 669&quot;]<img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/schilder/142.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> to Coin Talk.&nbsp; Chances are it would have taken longer to get an answer in the What&#039;s it Worth forum, which is mostly inhabited by collectors of US coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may have a 1934 Republic of China Yuan/Dollar (KM#345), with a bust of Sun Yat Sen <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />thumb: quick dog) on the obverse and a Chinese Junk on the reverse, in the more or less standard silver crown size of ~39mm, and a weight of 26.7000g of .7555 silver.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The date on the coin is Republic of China Year 23, which is why I say you &quot;may&quot; have that coin.&nbsp; In addition to the 128,470,000 genuine coins minted that year, some 30-million restrikes were produced at three US mints in 1949.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2006 Standard Catalog of World Coins values the real ones at $3-25, depending on grade, and doesn&#039;t give a value for the restrikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two types of so-called &quot;junk dollars&quot;.&nbsp; The 1932 KM#344 has birds flying over the junk, and a rising sun at the lower right edge of the coin - much more attractive to my eye than the later 1933-34 version.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/junk.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/junk.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/junk.html</a> is an on-line index to dozens of articles about the venerable Chinese sailing ships known as &quot;junks&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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