Kiangnan Province, China

ColinCMR

The 1906 (Cyclically dated) 10 cash coin from Kiangnan Province has a few mintmark varieties and some reverse varieties based on the eyes of the dragon being incused or in relief.

There are 3 mintmark varieties listed in my Krause.
The first two mintmark varieties also have 2 sub-varieties, one with the incused dragon eyes and one with the eyes in relief.
The third mintmark variety, incuse mintmark on a raised disc, only has one variety listed in my old Krause. That is, it doesn't specify what the dragons eyes are like. Does anyone know if there were the two different dragon eyes minted for this mintmark variety?

tbirde56

I assume you're referring to Y-10k.4.
Krause 2006 is no help and even lists a 10k.4a with no values and no additional description to what may be different.

SYRACUSIAN

I have a nice Kiangnan 10 cash, only it's from 1905

ColinCMR

Yes tbirde, i do mean Y-10k.4. I didn't list the cat# because my Krause is so old taht the numbering is sometimes different.
Thanks for looking though!
It seems to be the more difficult variety, I happened to find it in low grade in a mixed world coin bag.


Nice coin SYRACUSIAN!! My coin is VG at best, it's been around.

sumnom

I don't know the answer to your question Colin. Does anyone here know?

Kurt4

I've gotten some good info. at this site: Link I even e-mailed Y.K Leung about a coin and he determined it was a fake. If you look at the "dubious coins page", that's mine. These coins can be a bear to try and figure out. Hope this helps.

ColinCMR

Thanks for the link, maybe I will email him too.

sumnom

Nice site. Thanks for the link.