One bizarre Chinese coin overstruck on another type of Chinese coin

Discussion in 'World Coins' started by gxseries, Jul 1, 2010.

  1. gxseries

    gxseries Coin Collector

    On my conquest on finding bizarre overstruck coins, this is one really odd one that I have never come across:

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    Shensi 2 cents overstruck on Honan 20 cash.

    This alone throws a lot of confusion over how Chinese cash coins of various provinces work. Was the Honan 20 cash coin worthless enough to be struck over as Shensi's 2 cents or this was some mint employer messing around? Note during this period of time, it was common for a lot of the Chinese mint to import Korean 5 mun coins to be overstruck as 10 cash coins but this comes as a total surprise. Please kindly let me know if you have come across another example of this kind of overstrike.
     
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