gxseries 0 Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 Decided to compile what I had and it looks pretty neat. In particular when you put all the different Chinese Province coins together on one page, it looks pretty awesome. I'm down to a few more coins which a couple of them should be easy but I just keep on missing out on them but I'm sure I'll get them some day. Most recent win and one of the tougher coin is the Chinese Soviet silver coin. A lot more difficult than you expect. Also added in the Manchukuo (Manchuria) page struck during the Japanese occupation. Looks pretty neat I guess. Here are the pages: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/china/china_province.htm http://www.gxseries.com/numis/china/manchukuo.htm Hope you enjoy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ccg 0 Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 Neat! Soviet minor silver are indeed quite scarce - I've yet to see one in person! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dustin43160 0 Posted October 20, 2011 Report Share Posted October 20, 2011 That would make a really nice christmas gift to a certain friend in ohio (me) lol very nice coin! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
silver coin 0 Posted October 31, 2011 Report Share Posted October 31, 2011 i love silver coins Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Art 0 Posted October 31, 2011 Report Share Posted October 31, 2011 Very nice gx. Your webpages are wonderfully done and I really enjoyed seeing the coins displayed together along with information that I can read about them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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inscriptor 0 Posted November 24, 2011 Report Share Posted November 24, 2011 The year is obviously 1934 ad, the denomination is "2", but what is the currency unit here? It's definitely not "fun". gxseries, could you please tell us that? If possible, please provide the typeface character for the currency unit for that coin. Thanks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ccg 0 Posted November 25, 2011 Report Share Posted November 25, 2011 2 jiao (if you're using pinyin mandarin). jiao = dime, so it's a 20-cent coin. As with some "big money" coins of the era, the other side remarks "every five pieces equals one dollar" Also, year is 1933. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gxseries 0 Posted November 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 Chinese coins can be very challenging because of the characters as well as the massive amount of counterfeits floating around. I think it was around this era when simplified Chinese characters started to come in so that's why you may see two different ways of writing the same character. For instance this table here is a good example: And then there's a few ways of writing denominations as well. Here's a few examples: 5 li: 1 cent: Half "dime" or 5 cents: 10 cents - where it can be written as 1 jiao 20 cents Half yuan: Can be quite complicated! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ccg 0 Posted November 26, 2011 Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 Is that Korean or Japanese perhaps? Some of the characters I've never seen written that way, e.g. the "1" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gxseries 0 Posted November 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 ccg, you are right. It's Japanese - missed it completely. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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