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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 656780, member: 4703&quot;]Diameter?</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not a Republic of China coin, but since it is dated Year 3 it may be a post-revolutionary provincial coin.&nbsp; Knowing the size would make it far easier to locate in the 70+ Standard Catalog of World Coins pages that have to be searched.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps I&#039;m confused, but the text seems to refer to a single coin, and the pictures are clearly of at least two different ones.</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>Picture 1 is correctly oriented</li> <li>Picture 2 needs to be rotated approximately 30 degrees to the right</li> <li>Picture 3 gives a decent view of the reeding and doesn&#039;t need reorientation</li> <li>Pictures 4, 5 and 6 are useless in view of the wear on the coin(s) they depict</li> <li>Picture 7 needs to be rotated 90 degrees to the left.</li> </ul><p>I&#039;m not ready to jump to the &quot;Chinese fake&quot; conclusion just because it appears to be Chinese!&nbsp; In fact, the denticles/reeding - an area frequently screwed up by the Chinese counterfeiters - don&#039;t look all that bad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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