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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 3142738, member: 42034&quot;]My wife was making some Chinese food and asked if I had any Chinese coins to show.&nbsp; While I don&#039;t collect them I did find one bronze bought long ago from Karl Stephens ($49).</p><p><br /></p><p>Chinese,</p><p>SUN K&#039;O-WANG</p><p>Reign title: HSING-CHAO, AD 1644-1650</p><p>bronze candareen*, 49-50 mm diam, 27.121 grams&nbsp; &nbsp; (*wt of 7.6 cash)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://coinsandhistory.com/pix_shared/pix_cointalk/China_AE_Candareen_both_1200.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>China</b></p><p>SUN K&#039;O-WANG</p><p>Reign title: HSING-CHAO, AD 1644-1650</p><p>S-1332</p><p><br /></p><p>Sun K&#039;o-Wang was the adopted son of Hang Hsien Chung. After the death of Hang, Sun K&#039;o went to Yunnan where he cast the Hsing-Chao coins, one of which bears a Board of Works (KUNG) mint mark, but must have been minted after Sun-K&#039;o left Peking.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1650, Sun K&#039;o-Wang surrendered to the Ching and became known as the patriotic prince.</p><p><br /></p><p>MING REBELS</p><p><br /></p><p>In AD 1644 the Chinese were once again conquered by foreigners as the Manchurians took control of much of China to establish the Ch&#039;ing Dynasty. This was a period of turmoil during which a series of pretenders and rebels controlling small (some sometimes not so small) regions fought a series wars and rebellions at first against the Ming, later against the Ch&#039;ing, and sometimes between each other. These people are referred to as the Ming Rebels and it is a fairly complex period in Chinese history.</p><p><br /></p><p>The inscription starts at the top and is read around to the right, rather than the usual top-bottom-left-right.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if this was made by one of the Ming Invaders or by a proper Chinese person.&nbsp; The name &quot;Patriotic Prince&quot; implies the latter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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