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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kvasir, post: 84286, member: 4139&quot;]1. The upper left on your first photo is from 1909, 1st year of the Xuan Tong Era (perhaps you&#039;ve heard about Puyi, the Last Emperor). So far so good, the date (chinese lunar cycle 己酉 ) indicates that it could be the Year of the Rooster in 1849, 1909, 1969 etc. This matches the Era indication on the coin. Face value is 20 mil or 0.2 or a cash cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. The upper right is a 10 mil coin from the GuangXu Era, the date ( 癸卯 ) indiate it&#039;s from 1903. 卯 tells us that&#039;s it&#039;s Year of the Rabbit/Hare. The coin was made in KiangSoo or today&#039;s Jiangsu Province. The English and Chinese inscription regarding the location match.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. There&#039;s not much more i can tell you about the Japanese sen. </p><p><br /></p><p>4. This 20 mil coin is un-dated, except we know it&#039;s from the GuangXu Era (1875-1908). The coin is also non-specific about the location. Hu Poo is the transliteration of 戶部. I&#039;m guessing it means Ministry of Finance or something of that sort. </p><p><br /></p><p>All the swirly script you see on the Chinese coins is Manchu, the imperial script. Less than a 1000 or so people today are literate in this near extinct langauge today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your first 3 coins seem genuine (since many similar looking chinese coins are popular targets for counterfeits and forgeries). The last chinese coin i can&#039;t really tell without closer inspection. Nothing in the inscription disprove it otherwise. Your collection of Qing coins seems to originate from within a few years, so chances are they are genuine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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