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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 1302123, member: 4703&quot;]Chinese all right - another fake!&nbsp; It&#039;s a copy of the Yuan Shih-Kai &quot;fat man dollar&quot; 1 yuan coin.&nbsp; (His name and the denomination sound the same, but are written differently.)&nbsp; The date is Republic Year 5 (1916), a year for which the mintage of this particular coin was zero.</p><p><br /></p><p>Real ones are 26.4g of .800 silver and come in several varieties from 1914-1921.&nbsp; Krause lists them as Y#329-Y#329.6.&nbsp; The effigy is that of an interesting historical figure.&nbsp; Yuan Shi-Kai was a leader of the revolution who served as the first President of the Republic before annointing himself as &quot;Emperor&quot;.&nbsp; That lasted a verrrrrry short time before he was ousted and the better known (at least to the west) Sun Yat Sen took over the&nbsp; Presidency.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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