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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 22411, member: 57463&quot;]Well, fortunately, for modern Chinese coins, you only need to learn about 100 characters at the most, starting with the numbers.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Even with Cash coins, there is a limited number of characters to deal with and you learn them one at a time.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a lot of books on Chinese numismatics.&nbsp; These three helped me.&nbsp; The citations from the American Numismatic Society library catalog at <a href="http://www.amnumsoc.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amnumsoc.org" rel="nofollow">www.amnumsoc.org</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Main Author:&nbsp; Jen, David. </p><p>Title:&nbsp; Chinese cash : identification and price guide / David Jen. </p><p>Publication Info:&nbsp; Iola, Wisc. : Krause Publications, c2000. </p><p>Extent:&nbsp; xi, 341 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. </p><p>Subject Info:&nbsp; Cash coins.Cash coins. Price guidesChina Price guides </p><p>Year:&nbsp; 2000 </p><p><br /></p><p>NL125,FAR EAST, 1991} 0382 FISHER, GEORGE A. JR. Fisher&#039;s Ding. (Littleton, Colorado, The Author 1990). 252 pp. illus. &lt;&lt;&lt; An annotated reprint of Ding Fubao&#039;s 1940 Lidai Gu Qian Tu Shuo, with catalog numbers and values added to the reprint pages, and many additional aids for Western collectors. The work includes a complex index to all coin inscriptions; Wade-Giles to Pinyin conversion table; illustrations of the fakes from Ding&#039;s 1938 edition (omitted from the 1940 edition); Chinese dynastic tables; a priced Schjoth-Ding concordance; a map of the locations of the Qin Dynasty mints; and tables of Manchu letters and mintmarks. (Joseph E. Boling)</p><p><br /></p><p>Main Author:&nbsp; Kann, Eduard. </p><p>Title:&nbsp; Illustrated catalog of Chinese coins (gold, silver, nickel and aluminum). </p><p>Publication Info:&nbsp; New York ; [Los Angeles] : Mint Productions, Inc., 1966, c1954. </p><p>Extent:&nbsp; 476 p. : [inc. 224 pls.] ; 24 cm. </p><p>Subject Info:&nbsp; China. Year:&nbsp; 1966 </p><p><br /></p><p>(I took Japanese.&nbsp; Many of the kanji characters are exactly the same but with other pronunciations.&nbsp; That is the nice thing about ideograms: you can pronounce them any way you want -- call it &quot;Ma&quot; or call it &quot;Horse.&quot; Call me: Ma-ro-ta&nbsp; (Horse Road Stranger)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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