Help Identifying three Chinese Silver Dollars

Windycity

Here are images of three Chinese Silver dollar for which I know very little. I believe one is a 1908 Silver Dragon Chihli Province 34th Year of Kuang Hsu, a second is a Chinese Junk Silver dollar but I do not know the year, and the third, I have no idea what it is. Any help with identification and/or further clarification is appreciated.

LochNESS

Have you done the usual Chinese counterfeit checkpoint inspection? checked for magnetism?

Windycity

Non-magnetic!!

StrikeOutXXX

By Obverse:

The top left is: Chihli Province 1908 Dollar Y#73.2, 73.3, or 73.4

The top right is: a 1932 Dollar (Yuan) Y#345

The bottom one is: a 1927 Dollar (Yuan) either Y#318a.1 or 318a.2


That should get you close - I can't read Chinese, but am darn good at looking at pictures 8-)

Windycity

In studying these a bit closer, I believe the only one that could be authentic is the Junk Boat dollar - the other two just don't pass the test. Detail lacking and weight off by a gram or so.

Type2

I'm sorry they all look fake. They are all big $$$ coins if they where real you can go to some auction web sites to find most of the chinese coins if you need some close ups.

lordmarcovan

Yes, they look highly suspect to me as well. And I'm not even remotely an expert on Chinese dollars.

But the lettering and devices on the top left coin have that telltale fake appearance one so often sees on the fake Bust dollars and Trade dollars that come out of China.

Hard to explain. Just wrong, somehow.