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Vincent

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  1. The large(ish) cast coin is from the Chia Ch'ing era (now written as Jiaqing era), 1796-1820, and from Shensi Province (now written Shaanxi Province). Shaanxi Province is home to the ancient terracotta army of the first emperor and the museum dedicated to it. You can find it in the Krause catalogue as C# 23-2. The two others are from the Kuang Hsu era (now written Guangxu era), 1875-1908, and from Kwangtung Province (now written Guangdong Province). They are Y# 191 in the catalogue. Guangdong Province was where machine struck coinage in China really took off, and these two are machine struck. The earlier machine struck coins of the Guangxu era from Guangdong Province were the same size as the Shaanxi coin, but the size was reduced due to inflation. These small ones are from 1906-08, shortly before the revolution (1911) that abolished the monarchy.

  2. It's a bit complicated to covert years of the Nepali calendar to years of the Common Era, because new year's day does not fall on the same day in the two calendars. Because of this, any year in one calendar does not translate neatly into any year in the other calendar. The VS2013 coins are contained in the MS5 and MS6 sets of the World Coins catalogue, i.e. the sets that are dated "1956" in the catalogue. I believe that the original set is the square set made out of quality materials and the set of restruck coins (i.e. MS6) is the rectangular set made out of less expensive materials (and is much more common). That is to say, your coins are the restrikes, in my opinion.

  3. Hi, welcome to CoinPeople!

    First of all, the last coin in the previous batch is actually a Japanese 10 sen from the 12th year of Taisho (1923), not from the Showa era. Now for the new batch:

    1. Not a real coin - a replica of: China, Board of Revenue mint, Emperor Kuang-Hsu (1875-1908) C# 1-16.

    2. Japan 10 yen 57th year of Showa (1982).

    3. Bahrain 50 fils 1965.

    4. Ethiopia 5 cents (5 santeem), struck between 1944 and 1966.

     

    Best regards,

    Vincent

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