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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 951204, member: 4703&quot;]Not my strongest area, but the top coin appears to be an undated Kwangtung Provincial &quot;Dollar&quot; issued in the dying years of the Empire (1905-08).&nbsp; I&#039;m not able to read the legends, and the pictures in Krause are not very high quality, so I&#039;m not sure which variety of the basic Y#183 it is supposed to be.&nbsp; I&#039;m fairly certain it isn&#039;t any of the earliest varieties, and is probably Y#183, #183a.3 or #183.4.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like the vast majority of supposed 19th-20th Century Chinese silver, it&#039;s almost certainly counterfeit - perhaps even contemporary.&nbsp; Real ones weigh 26.1g, and measure 39mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bamboo/pagoda piece is dated Republic Year 38 (1949) and has the denomination one Yuan (&quot;Dollar&quot;).&nbsp; The date would be consistent with an early Taiwan issue, or a very late Mainland Republic issue, but I can&#039;t find it in either section of Krause.&nbsp; (By that time there were few, if any, provincial coins being issued.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If I had to guess I&#039;d call it a fantasy product of one of the plethora of Chinese counterfeit factories.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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