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Posted 9 years ago
SpiritBear
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I know nothing, so........................................................... yeah. LOL.
Anyone know anything on these? Real? Period? Scarcity? The top two are likely common. The bottom one looks like it could almost be celebrating something?
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Two Chinese cash coins on top and one medal below, same items on 3 pictures. First picture shows mint names reverse side. Left= Boo-Yuwan mint which is the Kung-Pu Board of Public Works in Peking. Right= Boo-San which is the Shan mint in Sian, Shensi Province. Pictures 2-3 show the obverse side with Emperor's title. Both coins are from 1796-1820, Emp. Chia-Ching. The medal on the bottom with the dates 1850-1861 are the reign dates of Emp. Hsien-feng. The coins are not not hard to find and worth $3-5. The medal could be scarcer since I have not seen before. But I am not a collector or dealer of Chinese coins so my not having seen one doesn't mean that much.
Thank you so much for your very detailed response! I always wonder if you memorised these things or what, because you always are so helpful.
I also put it up on Numista and had come up with the same dates but as Boo-Yuwan and Boo-Kiyan, plus a commemorative piece of more recent make as the Chinese weren't supposed to have used Gregorian years so early.
I posted it here:
http://en.numista.com/forum/topic50097.html
For Chinese cash coins I use the Krause SCWC China section where they illustrate the mint and Emperor's names. Some times the coins are hard to read and I could be wrong.
They seem like a pretty difficult piece, especially to me who doesn't understand any Chinese characters. Thanks. :)