Can anyone identify the years on these 33 Cash coins (Emperor)?

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• Sapyx Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 18, 2025 6:11PM Answer ✓

  Wow, that's a lot of coins, and a lot of effort needed to identify them.Thanks for going to the trouble of numbering them, it does save us a bit of time. However, it would probably be more helpful in future to make several smaller posts with just a few coin in each post.

  I believe the short answer to your question is "No", there's nothing particularly rare or valuable here. But for a more detailed answer:

  First off, they're not all from China. For example, the ones with the wave pattern on the back are Japanese: that would be numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 which are all identical Japanese Kanei Tsuho 4 mon coins. Coin 2 is also Japanese, from Meiji Year 13 (1880), and coin 24 which is a Kanei Tsuho 1 mon coin - possibly made of iron.

  Now, to the Chinese coins.

  Number 1, as well as numbers 10, 12 and 33 are all from the reign of the Dao GUang emperor (1820-1850). Coins 1, 10 and 12 are from the Revenue mint, 33 is from the Works mint.

  Number 7, as well as numbers 11, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32 are from the Qian Long emperor (1735-1796). 1, 20, 25, 28, 29, and 30 are from the Revenue mint; 13, 18, 19, 21, 22 and 31 are from the Works mint, and 27 is from the Chihli Province mint; number 32 is too badly worn to read the mintmark.

  Number 14 is from the Jia Qing emperor (1796-1820), Works mint. Number 17 is the same emperor but the Nanchang mint.

  Numbers 15 is much older; these are from the Zheng He period of emperor Hui Zong of the Song Dynasty (AD 1111-1117).

  Number 16 I am uncertain about; I think I'm seeing am mixture of seal script and regular script, which would point to a Vietnamese origin, though this could be another Song Dynasty coin.

  Number 23 is s from the reign of the Kang Xi emperor (1661-1722), though it's a bit too worn for me to read the mint-name.

  Number 26 is a machine-struck cash coin from Kwangtung province, late 1800s - early 1900s.

  I think I covered everything; as I said, it's a bit hard to keep track of so many coins, even within a single person's reply.

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