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Seems like it's struck over an older coin. The seller mentioned that it's a Bern 1826 5 rappen but I struggle to see the year and denomination to start off with!

BKB, the coin that I'm looking for is the 'regular' para - 3 dengi. I am not sure if this was struck as a pattern. I've seen an example here: http://romaniancoins.org/1para1771.html I obtained this pattern a while ago: Did wish I had the regular one as well to make this set look complete. Also, has anyone else seen the other variety of 1772 para - 3 dengi Uzdenikov described as valak instead of valosk? Seems to be rather uncommon.

Tried to look for an example for my collection but they seem to be really uncommon? I'm sure someone here would have an example floating around...

Got hold of this unusual coin - Note that it's noted in both Chinese and English as well as Manchu script. This particular coin was one of the more radical coins as it was first introduced in 1896 in terms of denomination. The new denominations were half-10 cents (5 cents), 10 cents, 20 cents, half yuan and one yuan. Silver coins around that era were still issued in terms of mace and candareens. Back then, it was 1 yuan = 7.2 mace. This was so radicial that the public didn't like it and the mint was pretty much forced to reissue coins back in the old weight denomination. More can be read here: http://www.dragondollar.com/coins/tag/chinese-dragon// - some guy got really, really lucky! This is a good addition to my other coins: I really don't know what makes this coin really appealing but it just draws me in. Maybe you can get as lucky as that guy on the blog.

Ebay it or see if you know someone who's heading to Canada and offer him at a cheaper exchange rate? That might be the best solution.

I was saving this particular coin from a heavy verdigris damage which took me more than half a year to deal with - some of the coins have been in olive oil bath more than one year (changing them out when need be). This coin was completely covered in green - if you look them up on ebay, you can see good examples of them full of verdigris damage. This one turned out to be ok after conservation. Didn't pay a lot for it back then. I found the string like damage to be interesting. You can actually look through it. Note, this is a cast coin. The Chinese call it the "sand variety". Maybe to describe the coarse details of the "coin"? Here's a similar coin but struck. Note the resemblence? If I am not wrong, the second coin is actually the original coin that circulated, originated from Shanxi Province. The first coin however seems to be a comtempory counterfeit issued by Chinese warlord in Gansu Province. I haven't got to the point of researching how bad the Gansu economy became but I'm suspecting that because they needed a lot of money to finance, possibly military. Both coins are actually quite easy to obtain and you don't have to fork out a lot of money to collect interesting pieces of history.

Need better photos to start off with dustin. I'm guessing it's a Henan coin from 1910s but not too sure what the denomation is. It could be 10, 20, 50, 100 or 200 cash. Most of them are cheap with the exception of a couple of coins which command a higher premium regardless of the condition. Here's a common 50 cash: Here's the scarcer type: Notice that it says China instead of Honan on the top? The rarer type is the 20 cash variety which says China instead of Honan. Now that's really uncommon.

They should be worth slightly more than their face value - probably about twice? Depends on the year. Dollar coins from that era are another story. If it is a gift from your grandmom, you might as well keep it as a memento for a while. Welcome to coinpeople by the way.

Guess Uighur can be spelt as Uyghur or East Turkestan Finally found a coin that I like. This is a rather unusual coin that lasted less than one year, hence difficult to find in nicer conditions. If I am not wrong, there is part in Xinjiang that tried to declare independence because of the heavy Muslim population. This area is near the border of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan. More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Turkestan Note that the text is written in Chinese and arabic. This failed 'state' issued coins in two denominations, one being 20 cash and the other 10 cash. All the coins that I have suggest that they were overstruck - this one is overstruck over 10 cash coin like this one: Needless to say, these coins were not very popular with the general Chinese population and were culled or probably extermined immediately by the Communist Chinese party as they will never tolerate any provinces or cities declaring independency. I do have two other 10 cash coins but they are been in olive oil for more than one year due to the extent of corrosion. I should put these two coins shown under conservation.

So this site promotes counterfeits as well? Just seems like an archive of ebay's sold items.

Been looking for 1771 1 para - 3 dengi coin but it seems to be quite uncommon. Is it supposed to be a coin released for circulation or a "pattern" coin like other 3 dengi coins?

This thread will be locked and if I see similar activies coming from xKorzun, his account will be suspended faster than the speed of light.

one-kuna - my mailbox was full earlier. Should be alright now. Thank you.

I got to a stage where I reckon I bought some of the tougher coins. Everything else is either not something that I'm after or the price is outrageous. Looking to get one of those circulated platinum coins but otherwise I feel that I bought almost everything that I wanted. I think it's time for me to photograph everything that I have in my collection and sell off the duplicates - have been too busy going after bargains and not looking at what I have...

Got it a while and finally photographed it. I'm really happy with it. Also, thanks for letting me know of various year and mintmaster overdates, Candidate. Will be hunting them down.

I think it's getting harder to find such nice overstrike these days to be honest especially those without corrosion.

Your second photo is upside down. It's struck in medal alignment. This coin is not too pricy in nice XF condition - should be able to get one around 20-30 dollars.

Greenback from the 50 - 90s and before. Color was dull, security was poor plus it was heavily counterfeited. The Russian banknotes at least had proper security features.

Not too sure if you like this or not: I'm figuring this is where the underlayer is to be at.

Interesting, very very interesting. Sigi, have you tried to remove as much junk as possible? I don't know how comfortable with using toothpicks but you might want to give the edge a shot? Still think there's something there. I'll do a photo analysis when I get the time - work has been very rough on me.

I have to disagree - re-edging may not have necessarily occured. Quite unlikely but can happen. Sigi, I'm still waiting for more photos. Photos of the edge of the coin would be good too.

30 dollars? I would triple or quadriple that assuming if the reverse looks ok.

Value is determined by the market. Regardless of how scarce it may be, if no one wants it, it's worth face value. If someone wants to pay a high price for it, that's what you end up. Rim cuds may be classified as errors but it's not as dramatic as you want it to be.

I think I know what Sigi is trying to illustrate. First obverse picture would be the letter "D" for "D"ECYaTB. This is more difficult than I expected. Sigi, can you please take it with a bit more light and have it on a angle?

It's what you call a die cud. Don't know how common it is with Malaysian 20 sen but it is with Australian 2 dollar coins. What it is essentially is part of the die started to fall off, hence you have the excessive metal that did not get struck.