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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 597543, member: 4910&quot;]I revised my article on these odd coins and here it is again.</p><p>I managed to obtain some more examples of these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1949 the San Francisco Mint struck 2,000,000 and the Mexico City Mint</p><p>struck 8,000,000 copies of a Mexico Peso dated 1898 for use in China.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were made for the Chiang Kai-Shek Nationalist government (Kuomintang),</p><p>which was losing it&#039;s war with the Chinese Communists. The Nationalists</p><p>needed the silver to pay their soldiers who would no longer accept paper money.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dollar-size Mexico silver 8 reales and peso coins were used extensively in</p><p>China as &quot;trade dollars&quot; in the 19th and early 20th centuries, so the Chinese</p><p>people and merchants were familiar with them.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="http://www.brianrxm.com/pages/mexsf2.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.brianrxm.com/pages/mexsf2.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.brianrxm.com/pages/mexsf2.htm</a></b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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