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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Loong Siew, post: 2240266, member: 75799&quot;]Thanks all..Dougsmit,&nbsp; excellent write up.&nbsp; I started with much cheaper coins due to lack of knowledge and fear of fakes. Later I progressed to procuring some excellent pieces from a respectable Numismatist Dr Alex Fishman of Ancient Coins Canada and Numismall. Later I found a highly reputable dealer from China Steve Zhou who provided a good inventory of excellent pieces. The lower hartill ones I will only get from reputable auction houses for assurance purposes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your Xuande looks legitimate to me. Firstly the patination looks natural to me. Whilst patination can be faked, encrustations particularly prominent at the reverse are exceptionally hard to imitate. I do not have Hartill&#039;s book in front of me at the moment but given the vast quantities of Song coins available, it does not make economic sense to deliberately forge and fake common coins.. Lastly, Hartill&#039;s book is great as a reference on expected calligraphy styles of the like coins. You should firstly compare the script with the ones he listed as a base. Chinese numismatics look more at the &quot;feel&quot; and &quot;spirit&quot; of the script rather than the usual western approach of scientific comparatives. Official coins of certain times are determine based on the vigor of the strokes as well as the quality of the characters (particularly Song and some Ming coins).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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