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Bit of a mysterious Chinese Xinjiang 10 cash - any Arabic readers?


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Been way backlogged in cataloging. This is one of the more interesting ones. Xinjiang has been on the news, mostly for negative reasons.

Xinjiang seems to be a rather exotic place to me. Coins issued in the early 1900s had inscriptions in both Chinese and Arabic which I wished I could read.  

Coin of interest is this:

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Poorly struck but a better image can be seen here:

https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/china-provincial-sinkiang-province-10-cash-y-b36.1-cuid-1047731-duid-1290525

No year on this coin unless it's written in Arabic. I'm suspecting it was issued around 1910 - 1920s.

I would love to know what the Arabic text is. The Chinese text I believe is

中華民國 銅錢 - Republic of China Copper Money

當紅錢十文 - Copper 10 cash
新疆喀造 - Struck in Xinjiang Kashgar

The interesting part of this coin is if you rotate it around at a right angle, it reveals this

http://gxseries.com/ct/sinkiang_rotated_small_f.jpg

The characters of "中" & "民" can be seen.

A better quality can be seen here:

http://gxseries.com/ct/sinkiang_rotated_f.jpg

A likely candidate of the original host could be this:

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or this

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Catalog value of this coin may not seem to be high but trust me, this does not appear in the market often. On top of this, all the examples that I have seen does not seem to suggest that this is an overstruck example. The only overstruck Xinjiang example that I am aware is the Uighurstan 20 cash over Xinjiang 10 cash.

Some thoughts on this or some reference book I should be getting?

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Been doing some research - this does seem to be a rather uncommon coin. There is an example that shows that this is overstruck

 

https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=18588

 

But this is overstruck over a much earlier type.

 

https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=234392

 

I'm guessing that mine is struck on a later type of coin.

 

Pretty challenging!!!

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