I have a few picts of a bunch of different Chinese coins I have and wanted to know something about them. Any help is appreciated!
Interesting stuff Coinut. The top coin is a pre 1912 silver "Flying Dragon" 1mace 44 candereens it should be a little bit larger than a dime, it was minted in the Chineese province of Kiang Nan, 2nd coin, I think is fake,,, Not sure. 3rd coin. A british silver coin from Hong Kong year 1890 4th looks like a 1945 Chinese communist silver dollar, Bottom coin is a "Fatman" General Ki silver 1 Yuan year 1912 ???? I am not looking at my Krause and am doing this from memory. I like the top ccoin, the Chi/com and Hong Kong coin. Nice pick-ups.
First thing I would do is weigh them, and see if there fake, I’ve seem that Soviet coin faked more than once. Maybe you’ll be lucky.
Fakes? Hmm..maybe I am not an expert. I know they came from my father in law that ran a coin shop years ago and was part of his personal collection. I have 8-10 pages full. I couldn't take picts of all of them so I just picked some at random. I hope they are not fakes,I would have assumed my father in law would not have held onto fakes but who knows?
Their too crude for one thing, The Chinese purchased British made coining equipment that was state of the art, to produce these silver (non Cash) coins. Originals are well centered with even sharp dentils.
So you are telling me they try and "Make" the old coins look old as some if not all are old coin, with what seems appropriate wear. Just a question. I still have over a hundred in an album they were in from my father in laws collection so I am going to a coin show in May and have someone look them over, maybe not all are fakes. If they are they are, I wasn;t going to sell them anyways.
Well Coinut, best thing to do is get a couple of Krause World coin books and a good scale and weigh them out. Its the only way to be sure. Good luck.
Google "fake Chinese Coins": http://coins.about.com/od/worldcoins/l/bl_chinese_fakes_bought_by_pcgs.htm
All counterfeits. These coins were all sand-casted counterfeits, you may see the bubbles on the surface. While the genuines should be milled.
