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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 2847303, member: 81887&quot;]Well, I&#039;m not an expert in this area, but that&#039;s never stopped me before...</p><p><br /></p><p>I have just looked through the illustrations of Qianlong cash in Hartill&#039;s book, and checked the results of a Google Images search for &quot;qian long coin&quot;.&nbsp; Here are the two forms of the character &quot;qian&quot; that we&#039;re talking about:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]675050[/ATTACH]</p><p>Most coins of Qianlong have the type A form of &quot;qian&quot;.&nbsp; The &quot;shan long&quot; posthumous type features type B, and so does your coin.&nbsp; However, there are a number of other coins I found in Hartill and online that are not &quot;shan long&quot; but which do feature the type B qian.&nbsp; So, it seems that there was variation in how that character was written, at different mints or different times, and there isn&#039;t anything unusual in finding type B on a normal lifetime issue. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, as I said I&#039;m not an expert and I could be totally wrong.&nbsp; If someone actually knows differently, I&#039;d like to hear any corrections.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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