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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cdcda, post: 8254, member: 941&quot;]Thank you for the in depth reply. Please see my comments below...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently I had my dating wrong. It was my understanding that Kwang-hsu was began his rule in 1889. How could the 14th year equate to 1888? Please excuse my ignorance here. I believe the next step, as with all of these coins, is to get the weight and attempt to determine the composition and method of manufacture. On a closer examination I do have suspicions that they were cast.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For some reason Krause does not list the circulating versions of this design, there were in fact several different varities - all of which are rare - according to my Chinese reference books.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hey, I got the date right on this one! I believe this coin is almost certainly a fake. Traditionally, the &quot;fake&quot; or &quot;fantasy&quot; coins I have seen have minor strange variations such as the dots, characters which are not quite right (which I had not picked up on) and obverses and reverses that do not match.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will post when I have weighed and performed a closer examination of the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, after giving the idea much more thought, I am not certain why I was choosing to limit the idea at all. I am now trying to explore what would be involved in developing, deploying and administering a system which would provide high quality images of all types of coinage along with images of fakes and/or forgeries for comparison.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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