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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 951209, member: 4703&quot;]Your Junk (Chinese boat, not &quot;trash&quot;) Dollar is dated Republic Year 21 (1932), and is a blatant fake!&nbsp; That year the 26.7g .8800 silver Junk coins (Y#344) had three geese flying <i>above</i> the boat, not superimposed on the water; and a rising sun.&nbsp; Several varieties, with most of the differences on the reverse, were minted through 1934.&nbsp; (30-million more were struck at the three U.S. Mints in 1949 from the 1934 dies.)&nbsp; The bust is, of course, early revolutionary leader and then-President Sun Yat Sen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your &quot;Fat Man&quot; coin has a bust of Yuan Shi Kai, the Imperial General who defected to the rebellion and was installed (briefly) as the &quot;founding&quot; Emperor of a new Dynasty, after first serving as the first President of the Republic.&nbsp; Yours pretends to be Y#329.6, dated Republic Year 8 (1919).&nbsp; Other varieties of the 26.4g .8900 silver coin, all dated Republic Year 3 (1914).</p><p>have different edges - reeded, plain, with alternating &quot;T&quot;s, and circles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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