Help ID the Cash thread

Blackhawk

Here are a few of the cash that I've gotten lately. They are, most likely, common, but I have very little luck trying to ID them. The last one is somewhat caked with crud in the details, so IDing it may be impossible. Thanks

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#4



#5



#6

XpipedreamR

They all appear to be some sort of foreign Asian money.


I hope that was helpful

MSD61

#2 Hsuan Tsung 1821-1851 Reign title Tao-Kuang. All the rest of them I can't find with the info I have

sumnom

First, these are all Chinese, from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).

1. Qianlong reign (1736-1796), minted by the Board of Public Works

2. Daoguang reign (1821-1851), minted by the Board of Revenue

3. Jiaqing reign (1796-1821), minted by the Board of Revenue

4. Qianlong reign (1736-1796), minted by the Guiyang mint, Guizhou Province (Kweichow).

5. FAKE Guangxi reign (1875-1908), minted by the Board of Revenue. This is a reproduction that is not even intended to look like the real thing.

6. Jiaqing reign (1796-1821), minted by the Suzhou mint, Jiangsu Province.

(Edited to fix number 6)

farthing

Now for the important question - how many of the pictures are upside down?
















My guess is 6 of 12

sumnom

OH!!!

Number 6 is also Jiaqing reign (1796-1821)!

The second image needs to be rotated 90 degrees to the right. All the others are correct.

Aethelred

I have always thought Cash coins were cool, but attempting to ID them makes my head swim!

Blackhawk

I knew that I'd get some of them set up wrong. Do any of these coins have any value other than just being neat?

sumnom

They are quite common. I have seen common Qing coins go for around 50 cents to a dollar a piece but I wouldn't trust me on that. Anyhow, you might be able to get a sandwich for lunch if you sell a few of these.

Blackhawk

A sandwich it is...maybe peppered beef

lordmarcovan

#5 is a fake.



Oh. Sumnom already pointed that out.

Blackhawk

Did anyone but me notice that #5 is a fake?

MSD61

Hehehe....now I know why #5 was so hard to ID

sumnom

There is something about #5 that doesn't look right

ColinCMR

#5 could be a charm or something, or a modern trinket

sumnom

Yes, it is a modern trinket. I have seen many of them. Sometimes they even have the reign period and dates in English!

Lloyd

What about these beauties from my Aunty Doreen's drawers:




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sumnom

It is hard to tell from the image but given the color of the coins, I would suspect these are reproductions.

Aethelred

Why fake a 50c coin?

sumnom

There are factories that pump these things out as souvenirs. It is probably cheaper to produce the reproduction than to actually go out snooping around for the real coins.