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<p>[QUOTE="Croatian Coin Collector, post: 25154705, member: 153043"]Neither have I, which is strange, because even with communist China's ban on the export of pre-1911 (at least I think it is pre-1911, they might have changed the year again) cultural goods, you would think that at least some of them would have made it out of mainland China when millions of Chinese people escaped from mainland China after the communists won the Chinese civil war, and that some would have made their way into the market by now, plus since the UK and Portugal handed over Hong Kong in 1997 and Macao in 1999 to communist China, the export ban doesn't apply to Hong Kong and Macao (or at least that is my understanding), so somebody from Hong Kong or Macao could buy them in mainland China and then export them to the West, but that doesn't seem to be happening either.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish that there was some Chinese coin expert on this forum who could make clear whether there are or have been in the recent past any genuine pre-Qing Chinese gold coins available for sale anywhere.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Croatian Coin Collector, post: 25154705, member: 153043"]Neither have I, which is strange, because even with communist China's ban on the export of pre-1911 (at least I think it is pre-1911, they might have changed the year again) cultural goods, you would think that at least some of them would have made it out of mainland China when millions of Chinese people escaped from mainland China after the communists won the Chinese civil war, and that some would have made their way into the market by now, plus since the UK and Portugal handed over Hong Kong in 1997 and Macao in 1999 to communist China, the export ban doesn't apply to Hong Kong and Macao (or at least that is my understanding), so somebody from Hong Kong or Macao could buy them in mainland China and then export them to the West, but that doesn't seem to be happening either. I wish that there was some Chinese coin expert on this forum who could make clear whether there are or have been in the recent past any genuine pre-Qing Chinese gold coins available for sale anywhere.[/QUOTE]
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