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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 60915, member: 669&quot;]If genuine (and I am not aware of the Imperial Kiangnan provincial coins having any major counterfeit problems <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) you have a 10 cash (Y#135.9), one of 496,020,000 produced at the Nanking Mint in 1905; distinguished from other varieties of the same year by the small round rosettes on each side of the dragon on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s copper, and from the picture appears to have F detail (the 2006 Krause says $1), but the dark spotting would drop it to a net VG IMHO (Krause = 35¢).</p><p><br /></p><p>Kiangnan was a district comprised of the provinces of Anhwei and Kiangsu, with its capitol at Nanking.&nbsp; Shanghai was in that district in Imperial times.&nbsp; The inscription reads Kuang-Hsu Yuan-Pao.&nbsp; Kuang-Hsu was one of the last Qing Dynasty Emperors, ascending the throne at 3-1/2 years of age under the regency of his adoptive mother, the Dowager Empress Tz&#039;u-hsi.&nbsp; Although he tried to assert himself as a teenager, he remained under the thumb of the Empress until his death in 1908, the day after the Empress passed on under suspicious circumstances.&nbsp; (Thank you Krause for the historical note. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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