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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1733144, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m one that has never been able to get into Chinese coins and increasing import restrictions might make that a good thing anyway.&nbsp; One thing to understand is that there are a lot of Chinese coins that will look exactly alike to people like me and be very different to those who appreciate and have studied the subject.&nbsp; On several occasions over the last few decades I have decided that I should try to get into them again but I still have not got to the point that I appreciate them to the degree of medoraman let alone the real hardcore Chinese specialists who pay big prices for some of the coins.&nbsp; On each occasion, I generally buy a few more cash from Frank Robinson&#039;s list and discover I am not ready to get into them deeply.</p><p><a href="http://www.fsrcoin.com/112.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fsrcoin.com/112.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.fsrcoin.com/112.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The obvious start might be one of the small groups like 50 Northern Sung cash for $34.50.&nbsp; If you work through them and identify the bunch with interest to spare, you will start adding different things like Pan Liangs, Whu Chu and Wang Mang coins.&nbsp; I suggest sticking with the VF and higher ones since at this point you will not appreciate what makes the rare ones he sells in good worth as much as the common one in EF.&nbsp; A good purchase would be the $42 Hartill book but there is enough online that you can delay it until you decide you are at least as interested in the coins as I am (a little).&nbsp; There are many other reasonable sources for Chinese coins and an equal number of fake sellers.&nbsp; There is a high demand for the fakes from people interested in feng shui or who just like pretty baubles and don&#039;t care that they are modern.&nbsp; Below are five images selected because I had them at hand in the files.&nbsp; I have never finished photographing my later things (mostly the Sung Dynasty cash).&nbsp; I will warn that there are references with more than one system of transliterating Chinese into English so you may get confused when you read song in one place and sung in another.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]271307.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]271308.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]271309.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]271310.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]271311.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I apologize for what must seem like an effort to insert coins into a thread about --- well, I&#039;m not sure what this thread was about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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