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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 498103, member: 12789&quot;]In the future I plan to collect more of these.&nbsp; I really got interested in this stuff when I was in China a couple of years ago and visited some museums there - what a fascinating and fairly well documented era of history.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few T&#039;ang dynasty coins that came in, incredibly, a lot of Ming dynasty coins from much later on.&nbsp; To a lot of people early Chinese coins are a bit of an enigma, but really they are very easy to identify and read with just a basic knowledge of Mandarin characters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, China commemorates the T&#039;ang dynasty era with modern coins including this one from 1998 that I bought whilst I was there:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.geocities.com/scottishmoney/coinpeople/gold10yuan.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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