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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 5715, member: 669&quot;]Well Hal, there <i>may</i> be only 3 varieties in your group of Republic of China coins from the days before the Communist takeover of the Chinese government on the mainland, unless you consider coins with different dates to be different varieties. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Without commenting on whether they are real or fake, which I can&#039;t tell from your pictures, you have correctly identified the one at the upper left as Y#329, dated as &quot;Republic 3 Year&quot; (1914).&nbsp; The next to last character, reading right to left, is a 3, and the last character is &quot;Year&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The lower left is dated &quot;Republic 10 Year&quot; (1921), and is <b>probably</b> Y#329.6, but a careful examination of the reeded edge is necessary to distinguish Y#329.5 (which has oblique reeding) from the more common Y#329.6 (which has vertical reeding).&nbsp; The &quot;plus sign&quot; in position 2 is a 10.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other two are dated &quot;Republic 8 Year&quot; (1919 - top right, definitely Y#329.6), and &quot;Republic 5 Year&quot; (1916 - bottom right*).&nbsp; The characters in the next to last position are &quot;8&quot; and &quot;5&quot;, respectively.</p><p><br /></p><p>*There is a problem with the 1916 - Krause does not list &quot;fat man&quot; coins for 1915-16 in the 2003 30th Ed.<img src="http://forums.collectors.com/attachments/qmark.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp;&nbsp; I suspect that the coin is either Y#329.1, .2, .3, or .4, none of which I can find in the #%*^@$ 30th Ed., which is known to be rife with errors.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1919 is the most valuable of the other three, with a catalog value of either $10 or $17.50 in F, which is the most that coin might grade at IMHO.&nbsp; Krause does not list mintages for any of the &quot;fat man&quot; coins </p><p><br /></p><p>All of them, if genuine, are 26.4g of .8900 silver, with an actual silver weight of .7555 oz. (about six bucks melt value). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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