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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kvasir, post: 72216, member: 4139&quot;]Ooo i thought there would be counterfeit problems when i saw them in several Chinatown stores in Toronto selling by the tupperwares! Beside imperial coinage there were also early republican coinage for sale (1911-1949). I held and resisted and didn&#039;t buy any until I could find more info on them. It&#039;s really suspicious that they were selling maybe 25c a piece. Any tips on weeding out the fakes? I do read Chinese if that is required as part of the identification. This is contemporary fakes we are talking about or modern fakes for tourists? I understand contemporary fakes could worth just as much if not more. </p><p><br /></p><p>The squirley script in the middle is Manchu, the script for the Manchurian rulers. Although Manchu was still the langua franca of the ruling class, the de facto language in and out of the palace had been Chinese. </p><p><br /></p><p>Manchu is near extinct today with native speaker less than a thousand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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