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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 199558, member: 669&quot;]The date is Republic Year 22, which is 1933.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t have the expertise to be certain either way, but there are far more counterfeits than genuine examples of this coin.&nbsp; Have you confirmed the weight, which is the first step in authentication of any coin that is subject to extensive Chinese &quot;post-production&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you have confused &quot;restrike&quot; (striking new coins with old dated dies) with &quot;overstrike&quot; (adding new legends/designs to existing coins).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In 1949 the US Mint used original dies supplied by the Chinese Nationalist government on Taiwan to strike thousands of misdated new coins, it didn&#039;t stamp anything on top of existing coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin itself is referred to as a &quot;junk dollar&quot; because the reverse design includes a depiction of a Chinese Junk sailing ship, and the 1 Yuan denomination is the Chinese equivalent of a 1 dollar denomination.&nbsp; The designation has nothing to do with what we now call &quot;junk silver&quot;, meaning coins worth no more than their bullion value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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