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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 657653, member: 4703&quot;]Thanks for the correction Gary.&nbsp; My knowledge of Chinese characters (&quot;Kanji&quot; in Japanese) is limited to &lt;100, and I jumped to a conclusion when I saw that character next to a number.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that I knew where to look, I have found something similar to the the obverse (but not the reverse) in the Standard Catalog of World Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like so many of the Chinese tourist souvenir fakes, it has only a passing resemblance to a real coin - specifically Y#253, an undated Yunan Province 50¢ issued in 1908, which would contain 13.2g of .800 silver.&nbsp; The primary difference is that where the groups of 7 small circles are at 3:00 o&#039;clock and 9:00 o&#039;clock, the real coin has a small rosette. </p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse of the real coin has the side view of a dragon, with English legends of &quot;YU - NAN PROVINCE&quot; and &quot;3 MACE AND 6 CANDAREENS&quot; at the top and bottom.</p><p><br /></p><p>If real it would be valued between $5.50 and $25 in VG to XF.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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