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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CollectingFool, post: 160456, member: 6560&quot;]Hello, this is my first post to a forum so I hope that this question makes sense to someone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today I acquired a large Chinese coin with a dragon on one side and the inscription Szechucn Province One Tael on the opposite side.&nbsp; I looked in my copies of the Standard Catalog of World Coins for both the 19th and 20th century and could not locate this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin has a large diameter, larger than most crown-size coins and appears to be made of copper-nickel, although it could be silver turned gray.</p><p><br /></p><p>After being unable to locate it in the catalog I began to suspect it might be counterfeit since Szechuan was spelled Szechucn.&nbsp; I did find a similar One Tael coin from one of the other provinces in the catalog but nothing in the Szechuan section.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can anybody shed any light on this, including what it might be worth?&nbsp; It looks to be a really nice EF45 with no rim bumps, major marks, spots, cleaning, or any other problems.&nbsp; I paid the grand sum of $5 for it at a flea market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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