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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 2296251, member: 4373&quot;]The overstruck 10 cash coin is actually a poor example. This is overstruck over a 1896 5 fun. Note that there are three different varieties of this particular year.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/1021117.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I am concerned, the intended province is supposedly Zhejiang (Chekiang) Province. The reverse however does not match any known examples. This is an example that I own.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/924505.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some other examples:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/924506.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/924507.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/957745.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am certain you can tell the details are quite different. Many years ago these were quite common as millions of 5 fun coins were sold to China as scrap metal. This was supposed to be melted down to be struck as new coins but as you can imagine, some mints must have found overstriking to be a cheaper method. Whether this was officially done by corrupt mint officers or some counterfeiters&#039; basement operation, I don&#039;t know. I suspect it could easily be both. However in recent years, many poor examples have been popping up and I suspect this is one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the &quot;pattern&quot; - there are too many counterfeits flooding the market. This is one of them. Official pattern coins are just excessively rare - the chances of winning the first price lotto is much higher than buying genuine examples offered online at a bargain price. I would return it immediately.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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