Need Help Identifying Chinese coin ???

ozzysdad47

Picked this up at a yard sale. wondering if anyone can identify it for me. Jeez, The Red X of Death, It's been so long since i posted i forgot the command string to post a pic, Guess i could use a bit of help remembering......Anyone?

Thank's, Ozzysdad

DesertRat

It is a Chinese Imperial (Dragon Type)

Hupeh Province

Minted for provisional use between 1894-1907

It is Silver

Without knowing the diameter it is going to be either Y#124.1, 125, 125.1, 126 or 127

DCH

The denomination 7 Mace and 2 Candareens makes it a Dollar, km127.1 Almost positive it is a reproduction, many of the characters aren't matching Krause.

ozzysdad47

Hey, Thank's guy's,

I don't know if it's a repro or not??? I guess weighing it will help. I'll try looking up those KM Number's , I have found that trying to distinguish some of the character's in Chinese is like trying to read Japanese upside down, left to right and backward's I bought it for less than an oz. of silver.

Thank's again, ozzysdad........

sumnom

The English says Hubei province but the Chinese on the other side says Qinghai province. This looks fishy to me. Qinghai was not a province at that time. I'd say, "fake."

ozzysdad47

Sumnom,

I know that you know your stuff pretty well, But tell me this, Do you think i can get my 8 buck's back, or should i just have a giveaway?

Thank's, ozzysdad.....

sumnom

I don't know if you can get your money back or not but I do know that a giveaway would be appreciated!

satootoko

A product of one of the Chinese fantasy/counterfeit/replica/scam factories; and definitely not one of the better class examples.

Zoins

Check out this page for some counterfeit vs legit info.

sumnom

I kind of like it, as counterfeits go. I like the anachronistic use of "Qinghai Province."

Zoins

I had a bunch of this type of Chinese counterfeits at one time that I got for cheap but they went missing

sumnom

There certainly are a lot of them floating around.