I have a KP coin catalog that has a lot of Chinese coins in, but all that I could find from these 2 coins is that the left-hand one looks like it has the Boo-Clowan (Peking) Hu-PU Board of Revenue mint mark. Can anyone out there give me any more help than that in identifying what I have? Thanks so much!
Both look to me like Ch'ien Lung (emporer Kao Tsung, 1736-1795). I would agree that they are also both from the Board of Revenue mint in Peking.
Are the first two pictures one coin and the last two the other? The first reverse and the second obverse seem to show more wear than their mates.
Yes, the top left and top middle photos are one coin, and the other two are the second coin. I guess that if they are from the 1700's would explain why my book of 20th-century coins did not have a photo of them.
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I'm not saying it's not a fake, but since I'm new to coins I'm curious why you say the first is a fake. I actually have a third similar coin as well. We have no idea where they originally came from, only that they ended up stashed in the family home some time by the end of World War II.
reason of being fake it is a modern strike for the "meat" of this coin is dotted not smooth(meant is a term here in chinese coin terminology here in China). thanks, if you like to know more, contact me. Greeting from Guangzhou, China!
more on "meat" modern replica does this kind of fake thing by using sands during reproduction, so that is why the meat is not smooth but dotted.
I think I understand what you mean - the rough area around the writing is too regular on the coin that you say is a fake, and is much more irregular on the one you say is not a fake. Would that be right?
yes, that is perhaps right and regular is just one aspect. Another aspect is about the so -caled rusty cover (clothes of an ancient chinese coin). If it indicated the slightest new metal color, then it is fake. And this kind of rusty colthe is pretty hard to reproduce even though some cunning reprodicers use the rusty substances from a genuine ancient coin to paste it on the modern one.
