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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 2960044, member: 4373&quot;]Found a link that may be of interest. This is written by Eduard Kann who lived in China in early 1900s and left when the Communists took over. His interests in Chinese coins led him to write very detailed information about coins from that era and it still is very very useful today. Sadly I don&#039;t think he have written anything about copper. Perhaps it would be another encyclopedia worth for copper / brass / bronze coins alone.&nbsp; Page 293</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015025952790;view=1up;seq=299" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015025952790;view=1up;seq=299" rel="nofollow">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015025952790;view=1up;seq=299</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Before you start screaming copyright - this is an old catalog that has expired a long time ago. There are reprints available and I would highly recommend you to get it. I still cannot get my heads around the amount of information and coins that were issued back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my questions is definitely answered - the portrait is definitely Sun Yat-sen. Lin Sen was the governor of National Government at that time. For US coin collectors, this may be of interest as the master dies were prepared in Philadelphia (!) and were shipped off to Shanghai. As Shanghai could not keep up with production, Austrian mint was also involved to produce additional nickel coins. Sadly as the Sino-Japanese war started, production had to be relocated more inland into different provinces. As nickel prices rose, I can only speculate that there were attempts to strike coin in brass and aluminum. This may have varied in different regional areas.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll leave this for now - this is quite intense and I have not got around to absorbing all the information.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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