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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2274914, member: 19463&quot;]I believe this is a major part of the problem.&nbsp; There are thousands of genuine cash available each day with reasonable value of a dollar (or so - depending on condition and type) but telling them from great rarities that sell for thousands is beyond me in too many cases.&nbsp; I have a gathering (collection is too strong a word) of a few hundred cash with many duplicates that I have identified as far as Hartill numbers and can ID by sight at most 10% of them.&nbsp; The rest require comparing to the book drawings.&nbsp; I bought what I have from &#039;trusted&#039; sellers but never developed a feel for telling myself.&nbsp; Of course expecting a genuine cash from 1900 to resemble one from 300 BC is really pushing it so you have to consider what each one should look like. </p><p><br /></p><p>Charms carry no interest for me and I expect most are fake.&nbsp; I had not heard the theory that they were money, too.&nbsp; Of course, I have no use for modern &#039;made to be collected&#039; coins either.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Where the cash hobby loses me is the significance of flyspeck differences like &#039;two dot tong&#039;, &#039;closed head&#039; and things like the difference between the two Wang Mangs below.&nbsp; How many differences do you see and which make any real difference?&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]453752[/ATTACH] </p><p>We also have varieties like the ones with a fingernail mark on the reverse.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; </p><p>Yong Li tong bao</p><p>[ATTACH=full]453753[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Others I like:</p><p>Yi Tao (small and early) </p><p>[ATTACH=full]453751[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Pan Liang (hundreds of variations here)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]453750[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to cut a coin in half but still be able to string them, what do you do? Really? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]453749[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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