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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 7350168, member: 102103&quot;]This one is a bit of a puzzle to me.&nbsp; </p><p>I believe it is Vietnamese, Lê Dynasty, Canh Hung Thong Bao=景興寶通, 1740-87</p><p>Diameter is ~22 mm, weight is only 1.53 g</p><p>Most of the copper cash of Canh Hung should be about 3-4 g, 24 mm.</p><p>He issued a lot of coins, so I doubt it&#039;s a fake. </p><p>Maybe a contemporary unauthorized underweight issue.</p><p>There was also a <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces64870.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces64870.html" rel="nofollow">tin issue</a> of similar size, but no weight listed.</p><p>I&#039;m not familiar with the appearance of tin alloys after 200+ years, but tin a bit less dense than copper, so it might be a possibility.&nbsp; This one doesn&#039;t have a lot of the greenish corrosion typical of older copper coins.&nbsp; I assume the tin coins are some sort of alloy mix anyway, so a density measurement wouldn&#039;t tell me much.</p><p>Any suggestions?&nbsp; Normal issue, tin, contemporary counterfeit, or smaller denomination?&nbsp; Advice and commentary welcomed as always!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1281979[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1281980[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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