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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lonegunlawyer, post: 1544171, member: 40282&quot;]These are beautifully toned coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Hunan (Hu-Nan) and Canton (Kwang-Tung) coins are provincial (I cannot determine the dates), the Hong Kong coin is territorial (being a British territory).</p><p><br /></p><p>The 10 &quot;cash&quot; or dollar coins I am guessing may be pre 1911.&nbsp; Also guessing the Hong Kong coin has an Arabic numeral date because Hong Kong was a British territory at that time (and into 1997).&nbsp; I do know the north and south Chinese characters stand for Hong Kong and the east/west characters stand for one part or one cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>The use of cent on the HK coin is interesting since it is an American term as compared to the British term of penny (which we commonly call our cents).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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