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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7940565, member: 19463"]This is a Kai Yuan (Hartill 14) Tang Dynasty as Andres2 said but yours is a different minor variation (there are many) of which I am no student. Your reverse image needs to be rotated 1/4 turn counterclockwise placing the 'nail mark' (Hartill reverse variety e, page 106) at the bottom. Your coin also differs from his in the Yuan (bottom character). His has the raised left shoulder while yours strikes me as more 'running'. I only have the plain Hartill 14.1 and know nothing about the fine points of ID. They were made in several mints over a period of almost 300 years. We expect many variations.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiyuan_Tongbao" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiyuan_Tongbao" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiyuan_Tongbao</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1374341[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7940565, member: 19463"]This is a Kai Yuan (Hartill 14) Tang Dynasty as Andres2 said but yours is a different minor variation (there are many) of which I am no student. Your reverse image needs to be rotated 1/4 turn counterclockwise placing the 'nail mark' (Hartill reverse variety e, page 106) at the bottom. Your coin also differs from his in the Yuan (bottom character). His has the raised left shoulder while yours strikes me as more 'running'. I only have the plain Hartill 14.1 and know nothing about the fine points of ID. They were made in several mints over a period of almost 300 years. We expect many variations. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiyuan_Tongbao[/URL] [ATTACH=full]1374341[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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