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<p>[QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 8357951, member: 81887"]I have Hartill, but frankly I'm usually not good at figuring out sub-varieties of Qing cash- I'm happy when I correctly remember the emperor and mint. Looks like the key distinguishing feature used by Hartill is the exact form of the character Tong, which unfortunately is a bit fuzzy on your specimen, so I would probably not worry too much about the exact Hartill number. Also, 22.597 is discontinued in the 2nd edition and 22.596-22.598 are subsumed under 22.596. </p><p><br /></p><p>Fuzziness is caused by problems in casting. This would indeed indicate lack of authenticity for struck coins. However, since these coins were originally cast, evidence of casting is not a problem. (Ironically, there are some modern repros that are machine-struck, where the lack of casting evidence is itself a clue to their fakeness. The ones I've seen have a stippled field. I think these are intended for use with fortune-telling using the I Ching, but they sometimes "escape" into the numismatic world.) "Degenerate" specimens are especially poorly cast, worse than yours; often on the reverse there is a raised area in the two blank quadrants (top and bottom). I think some of these may be unofficial casting done at about the same time as the originals (i.e. circulating fakes), though telling genuine but poorly-made mint creations from unofficial ones is harder with cast coins. I have some that I got in a large lot of circulated Qing cash, mixed in with ordinary pieces; evidently they circulated alongside normal coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 8357951, member: 81887"]I have Hartill, but frankly I'm usually not good at figuring out sub-varieties of Qing cash- I'm happy when I correctly remember the emperor and mint. Looks like the key distinguishing feature used by Hartill is the exact form of the character Tong, which unfortunately is a bit fuzzy on your specimen, so I would probably not worry too much about the exact Hartill number. Also, 22.597 is discontinued in the 2nd edition and 22.596-22.598 are subsumed under 22.596. Fuzziness is caused by problems in casting. This would indeed indicate lack of authenticity for struck coins. However, since these coins were originally cast, evidence of casting is not a problem. (Ironically, there are some modern repros that are machine-struck, where the lack of casting evidence is itself a clue to their fakeness. The ones I've seen have a stippled field. I think these are intended for use with fortune-telling using the I Ching, but they sometimes "escape" into the numismatic world.) "Degenerate" specimens are especially poorly cast, worse than yours; often on the reverse there is a raised area in the two blank quadrants (top and bottom). I think some of these may be unofficial casting done at about the same time as the originals (i.e. circulating fakes), though telling genuine but poorly-made mint creations from unofficial ones is harder with cast coins. I have some that I got in a large lot of circulated Qing cash, mixed in with ordinary pieces; evidently they circulated alongside normal coins.[/QUOTE]
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