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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 233765, member: 4373&quot;]I received a batch of overstruck Chinese coins over Korean 5 fun. I do have another batch of Russian overstruck coins but I&#039;ll post that on another day. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t know what overstrike means, it just means that old coins are used as &quot;planchets&quot; and are struck with new designs. Sometimes, it&#039;s just done for trial, sometimes because of a lack of planchets, overstrikes were done. Or sometimes, it&#039;s just a quick way to &quot;recycle&quot; coins as melting them down and striking them were too costly. The best example for US coin would be the 1804 dollar coin over a Swiss thaler. (if I am not mistaken) </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some shocker Chinese overstruck 10 cash over Korean 5 fun. </p><p><br /></p><p>China (Chekiang or Hupei) (1902-1906?) 10 cash overstruck on Korean Gaeguk 502 (1893)</p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/924504.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>China Chekiang (1902-1905) 10 cash overstruck on Korean Guangmu 6 (1902) 5 fun</p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/924505.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>China Hupei (1903-1906) 10 cash overstruck on Guangmu 2 (1898) 5 fun</p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/924506.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>China Chekiang (1903-1906) 10 cash overstruck on Korean 5 fun, likely to be Gaeguk 501-505. (1892-1896)</p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/924507.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Overstruck coins happened in other countries such as Italy, France, Belgium, Russia, Brazil (and many other parts fo Central, South America), Sweden, etc. The list does go on but I don&#039;t think there is a comphrensive list of overstruck world coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone else with overstruck coins? I&#039;m intending to build a homepage of such overstruck coins and any infomation will be much appericated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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