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Help identifying/value old silver Chinese cash coin
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 586870" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Most silver coins will have a higher specific gravity than other metals or their alloys (eg around 10)</p><p></p><p>The right and left characters probably translate as "universal currency" (tong bao). The top and bottom symbols probably give the period of the emperor when the coin was cast.</p><p></p><p>The most likely period would be qing, so you would have to go through the "traditional chinese" to work out which emperor (first two of the four symbols when written, the third and fourth symbols being the right and left "universal currency").</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1607857243_emperors.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 586870, member: 4386"] Most silver coins will have a higher specific gravity than other metals or their alloys (eg around 10) The right and left characters probably translate as "universal currency" (tong bao). The top and bottom symbols probably give the period of the emperor when the coin was cast. The most likely period would be qing, so you would have to go through the "traditional chinese" to work out which emperor (first two of the four symbols when written, the third and fourth symbols being the right and left "universal currency"). [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1607857243_emperors.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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