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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 94961, member: 4373&quot;]True, it can be from the 17th century to the 20th century. Depending on how it is preserved, it can be in any state. </p><p><br /></p><p>I personally don&#039;t like the look of it. Having seen <i>plenty</i> of counterfeits floating around in Asia which looks similar, I wouldn&#039;t even dare to touch it unless I want one as an example. There were few cases where remote museums in China that had issues with counterfeit sycees. I wouldn&#039;t fork out too much money even if it was &quot;shown&quot; to be a genuine one - there were times years down the road where that gets disproven, much to the disappointment to everyone. Afterall, those are made from cast silver, with no proper &quot;control&quot; except to some degree purity and crude mass weights. </p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said, I am no expert, but this is one area where I can help, which is to translate the inscribe text. The text &quot;財源茂盛&quot; or in hanyin would be &quot;cai yuan mao sheng&quot; (yes the bar is upside down), which roughly translates to &quot;The source of wealth from an excellent economy&quot;. Hopefully my chinese has not rusted that bad yet...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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