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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1158565, member: 4703&quot;]The character at the left end of the string at the top in your first picture is the character for &quot;year&quot;.&nbsp; In dating Chinese/Japanese/old Korean coinage that character <i>always</i> follows the date.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They do indeed, but their coins are easy to tell apart.&nbsp; The character at the right end of that string is the character for &quot;middle&quot;, which is part of the Chinese name for China.&nbsp; Spotting it won&#039;t help you determine whether the coin is from Taiwan, the mainland Republic of China pre-1949, or the current Communist Chinese government, but it will tell you that the coin isn&#039;t Japanese, or late 18th-early 19th Century Korean.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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