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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 1665281, member: 44140&quot;]<b>Feelings on Proto-Money</b></p><p><br /></p><p>First and foremost there is a special place in my heart for proto money. I have a cowrie shell imitation from China.:hail:</p><p><br /></p><p>I was told sometime ago buy an expert in Eastern coins that, about 80% of all Chinese Cash coins and Bronze Proto money was not fake but- well remanufactured over the last 150 yrs. I was told that there was many cash coins found in bronze pots, the coins were common and the pots were vary rare so people would take coins and melt them into pots. At one point the coins became rare and those pots were melted back into coins, and that this happened well into the post war years. He said it was nearly impossible to be able to tell the authentic original pots and cash coins from those that have been remanufactured becuase the process to do so was kept very similar. I was also told this was true for wide variety of bronze cast currency and proto-money. As far as I am concerned in the end for the price that they sell at I wouldn&#039;t mind having one of each.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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