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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 24589617, member: 81887&quot;]Looks OK to me.&nbsp; Your coin is Hartill 16.407 or 16.408 (depending on whether it&#039;s large or thin lines on the characters- I think yours is thin and thus 16.408, both types are about equally common).&nbsp; The coin reads Chong Ning zhong bao, and was issued by the emperor Hui Zong (1101-1125) during the period 1103-1106.&nbsp; Hartill lists this as Rarity 14 on his scale, which is &quot;Very Common&quot; and in the $5 price range (prices in Hartill are only a very rough guide, but it&#039;s not a $50 coin or a $1 coin). </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s some interesting additional text in Hartill:</p><p>&quot;In 1102, 5 cash coins were issued.&nbsp; The next year the Chong Ning zhongbao 10 cash were cast and ordered to be circulated everywhere except for the iron coin areas of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Sichuan.&nbsp; Each of these weighed 3 qian and contained 60% copper, 30% lead, and 10% tin.&nbsp; In 1104, the 1 and 5 cash coins were abolished and sole reliance placed on 10 cash coins; even 2 cash coins which had been kept in reserve were reminted into 10 cash coins.&nbsp; The records state that the production of the Chong Ning 10 cash coin was halted in Chong Ning 4, 1105.&nbsp; The following anecdote demonstrates the difficulties associated with such a large denomination:</p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;A certain good fellow was holding a feast, and gave a large coin for a glass of wine.&nbsp; When he asked for his change, the seller had no coins with which to give it, and said he would have to take his change in drink instead.&nbsp; After drinking five or six glasses, he belched and said, &quot;What if it had been a 100 cash coin?&quot;&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>This story impressed the Emperor, and because of it the regulations were changed.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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