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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TrungQuocDon, post: 3186187, member: 97349&quot;]High denomination cash coins of the Qing Dynasty were only produced in reaction to the Taiping Rebellion forcing the Manchu&#039;s to even use paper money and grossly devalued cash coins, all denominations for every inscription can be found <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_cash_coins_by_inscription#Qing_dynasty" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_cash_coins_by_inscription#Qing_dynasty" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a fantasy, Tongzhi tongbao cash coins were only cast in the denominations of 1 wén, 5 wén, and 10 wén, while Tongzhi Zhongbao cash coins were only issued in the denominations 4 wén and 10 wén, this was not because the economy recovered (it didn&#039;t until the Guangxu era) but because the Manchu&#039;s learned their lesson and market simply didn&#039;t accept these unrealistically inflated Xianfeng pieces. It&#039;s not uncommon for fantasy pieces to have &quot;a Xianfeng reverse&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later additions (through the &quot;edit&quot; button) below:</p><p><br /></p><p>As you also asked for other reasons why it would be fake I would say that both the colouring and the patina is off for the cash coins from that era.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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