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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 163239, member: 4910&quot;]Does this Mexico 1898 peso coin look authentic?</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was listed on Ebay and is located in China.</p><p>I was not going to bid on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=150048525832" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=150048525832" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=150048525832</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I know that the Chinese have been making copies or counterfeits of various silver-dollar sized coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, this one could have really made it to China.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a 1949 restrike of a 1898 peso that China&#039;s Chiang Kai-Shek Nationalist government (the Kuomintang) ordered from the Mexico City mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Approximately 2,500,000 of these coins were shipped to China in late 1949.</p><p>They were to be used to pay soldiers who would not accept the worthless Nationalist paper money.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been researching these unusual coins for the past year and wrote this article on them:</p><p><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/mexsf/mexsf.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/mexsf/mexsf.htm" rel="nofollow">My article on these coins</a></p><p>I have found out some more information and will update my article soon.</p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/about/pm_cowboy_292.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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