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Chinese? No? About the size of a silver dollar...

braddickbraddick Posts: 24,205 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Yet harshly cleaned.
Picked it up for a bit over silver off a bid board.
Any good?
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  • JamminJJamminJ Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭
    Ethiopia, good buy. image
  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭
    Lions carrying a banner topped with a coptic cross adorn only Ethiopian coins

    This one is KM#5 (lion's left foreleg raised), 1 Birr, 28.075g .8350 silver (ASW .7537 oz.)

    20,000 minted with EE date 1887A (1894), 200 with EE date 1888A (1896), and 418,000 with EE date 1889A (1897).

    Values from $85-100 XF and $250-325 Unc in the 2001 3rd Ed. 19th Century Krause are probably on the low side.

    Super buy!image
    Roy


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  • josemartinsjosemartins Posts: 88 ✭✭
    Yes, probably Chinese, too many wrong details...


    Jose
  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,738 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is it suppose to be this one?

    Image courtesy of CoinArchives, UBS Sale #61
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    8 Reales Madness Collection
  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Yes, probably Chinese, too many wrong details...


    Jose >>



    I agree. It's a fake. The portrait is wrong -- look at the beard details compared to the real one twokopeiki posted, and the overall lack of sharpness.

    BTW, the inscription says 1/8 birr, which should be between a dime and a quarter in size. If it's bigger, it's definitely a fake.
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