35cents Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 I have a coin I am trying to identify, I have looked in all reference books and can only find similar coins, it is silver dollar sized and appears of silver alloy, a lone figure on the obverse and a dragon with what looks like Chinese symbols on the reverse. It is similar to the Chinese dollar coins of the early 1900s. Any help would be great - thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 Hello, and welcome to CP! I regret to say that it is my opinion that the piece is modern, and is either a fantasy, or a copy of an obscure piece. Silver content if any is likely low - the yellowish shade (if that's not a camera/lighting issue) seems to suggest a nickel alloy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmarotta Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 ... I regret to say that it is my opinion that the piece is modern, and is either a fantasy, or a copy of an obscure piece. ... seems to suggest a nickel alloy. I agree. It matches no known common Chinese silver dollar or pattern of the early Republic, though, it is suggestive of some "YSK" (Gen. Yuan Shi Kai) or Gen. Chu Yu-Pu: man in a hat. But none have dragon reverses like that. Dragons typically come in One; two would defeat the meaining, like two eagles on a US coin, what's the other one for? And if it looks like "silver alloy" it is probably not silver at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
35cents Posted January 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 Thanks for all the help, I sort of surmised that it was a modern issue of some sort, but I'm not a foreign coin expert by any means. Interesting none the less! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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