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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Florida Keith, post: 8292379, member: 115627&quot;]Wow ! Thanks for all the replies - I learned a lot. So here are my &quot;sour grapes&quot; pictures (lol).</p><p>** The Anhwei 10C (1898 6char Y-42.4) weighs 2.66g; catalog weight shows 2.65g new. It has toning around outer areas. What I noticed on obverse is slight pitting which may be common to Anhwei silver (salt corrosion since this province is on the coast - I have another Anhwei 10C which has a very pitted surface. I&#039;m not sure about the reeding though(curved instead of flat). </p><p>**The Chihli dollar 1898(Y-65.1) weighs 26.60g; catalog when new shows 26.70g. Edge looks good to me (usually the hardest thing to counterfeit in my opinion). What I notice is many many tiny nicks in the silver as well as a few edge crunches. Would counterfeiters go to the trouble of using real silver, making it the right weight, badly scratching the dragon, and putting dozens of tiny nicks on the surfaces?</p><p>Looking forward to more replies -Thanks[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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