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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 154376, member: 669&quot;]Not quite!</p><p><br /></p><p>Pre-Republic Chinese coins are dated by the Imperial reign, but commencing in 1912 the old mainland government, the Taiwan government, and the Communist People&#039;s Republic have all dated their coins by the year of the Republic.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Just add 1911 to the Republic date, and you get the western date, so current coins of Taiwan and the PRC are dated Republic Year 95.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen" rel="nofollow">Sun Yat Sen</a> never &quot;ruled&quot; China.&nbsp; Although he was the first provisional President of the revolutionary Republic of China, he did not hold that office continuously until his death in 1925, and the subsequent rise to power of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" rel="nofollow">Chiang Kai Shek</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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