Post Your Chinese Coins Thread!

Compelling evidence for the round types dating to the Warring States period, this one to State of Chu.

http://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=110946

 

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That is insanely cool and valuable! It is also in very nice condition. Here's my mould:

 

Hmmm. By this time the mints should have abandoned stone for clay. You may want to show it around and get opinions.

I dont know. The last large mould fragment I had took nearly 25 years to sell. Sure, super cool, but nobody wants one and wont pay for them! I am sitting on a pile of small fragments now.

 

Fragments that big sell in the $1000-2000 range at auction. Sometimes less. Rarely more.

 

Mine was a very large fragment (with some uber-cool control characters). I was happy to finally sell it for $200.

 

The buyer got a bargain. I wish I had seen it.

 

I have seen other contemporary stone Western Han molds:

https://db.stevealbum.com/php/search1c.php?sale=1&item=51225

http://asian.sudokuone.com/cmold1.htm

http://hua.umf.maine.edu/China/Xian/Shaanxi_History/pages/157_History_Museum.html

But I am no expert on these things. I would hope mine is real, but I think it would be nearly impossible to conclusively authenticate.

 

With so many fakes I cannot invest myself effort and financially in them

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If you stick with the common (<$30) stuff, the chance of buying fakes is very slim. The fakes at this level are very easy to spot.

 

if i had seen the "bridge money" before, i didn't remember it. i have a few....

 

Not sure if this is authentic but this is my hollow handle spade.