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<p>[QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 6631297, member: 81887"][USER=41219]@furryfrog02[/USER] is correct, it's a Chinese "cash" coin from the reign of the Qianlong emperor (1736-95), from the Board of Works mint in Beijing. (One of the most common emperors and common mints.) Here's a transliteration of the legends:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1267752[/ATTACH]</p><p>The obverse has four characters in standard Chinese script. These are read in the order top-bottom-right-left to give "qian long tong bao". Qianlong is the era (Chinese coins normally feature the name of the era, rather than the Emperor's personal name), "tong" is "current" and "bao" is "coin" or "treasure", so the obverse can be translated "current coin of the Qianlong era". The reverse is in Manchurian script and reads "boo yuwan", which is the transliteration of Chinese "bao yuan". Bao again means coin or treasure, and yuan can mean "first", "origin", or "source"; a translation might be "Source of Coins", though this mint is usually listed as the far more boring-sounding Board of Works, which is the government bureau that issued the coin. (The other Beijing mint, Bao Chuan, is "Fountain of Coins" or Board of Revenue. Various other mints exist, which are generally just names of the city or province where they were located.) This is a very cool but also very common coin, and would retail for not more than a dollar or so. Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 6631297, member: 81887"][USER=41219]@furryfrog02[/USER] is correct, it's a Chinese "cash" coin from the reign of the Qianlong emperor (1736-95), from the Board of Works mint in Beijing. (One of the most common emperors and common mints.) Here's a transliteration of the legends: [ATTACH=full]1267752[/ATTACH] The obverse has four characters in standard Chinese script. These are read in the order top-bottom-right-left to give "qian long tong bao". Qianlong is the era (Chinese coins normally feature the name of the era, rather than the Emperor's personal name), "tong" is "current" and "bao" is "coin" or "treasure", so the obverse can be translated "current coin of the Qianlong era". The reverse is in Manchurian script and reads "boo yuwan", which is the transliteration of Chinese "bao yuan". Bao again means coin or treasure, and yuan can mean "first", "origin", or "source"; a translation might be "Source of Coins", though this mint is usually listed as the far more boring-sounding Board of Works, which is the government bureau that issued the coin. (The other Beijing mint, Bao Chuan, is "Fountain of Coins" or Board of Revenue. Various other mints exist, which are generally just names of the city or province where they were located.) This is a very cool but also very common coin, and would retail for not more than a dollar or so. Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]
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