Darksiders! I need help identifying this coin. Pics included.
Boom
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A very close friend approached me with this coin which is just a tad larger than a Morgan Silver Dollar.
I just snapped off these pics in the hopes someone in the know can help me with identifying it & the particulars.
Thanx,
B00M ~
Any help would be appreciated.
I just snapped off these pics in the hopes someone in the know can help me with identifying it & the particulars.
Thanx,
B00M ~
Any help would be appreciated.
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the wife says it is this guy.
she mentioned no denomination, so I am guessing it is a medallion of some sort.
odd, or maybe not, that wiki lists it as 1820
odd that she does not know the two smaller characters on the obverse to the right of the head
reverse top: Qing Dynasty
edit to fix wife's faulty translation: reverse bottom: 12 emperors
Darkside Experts. What say ye?
Thanks MsMorrisine. Anything else?
edited to add... what MsMorrisine said.
Also... I found this.
It has the "sound" of silver - somewhat.
Appreciate the help!
Slightly larger than a Morgan it weighs 23 Grams. and seems to have some silver content.
As some of the other links indicate, it's probably as shown therein.
Pretty cool though & interesting!
and the characters read right-to-left which is counter clockwise on the medal.
I don't think they are coins in the made as money sense of the word. medal or commem is my guess. I don't think those characters by the head are meant to be denominations. one guess is a period writing of the name??????
<< <i>odd that she does not know the two smaller characters on the obverse to the right of the head >>
Actually it's three characters, the top two are just very close together. The top character has several meanings, the most usual one being "sun".
Don't criticize MsMorrisine's wife too harshly - my Beautiful Bride can't decipher the last character at all, even with the aid of her new $250 electronic Japanese-English dictionary, and she can't find an appropriate meaning for the middle one either.
The characters are absolutely not Manchu!
Here is where you can see some.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/manchu.htm
It is phonetic writing where the words look like little sish-kabobs.
The one cash coins at the end of the dynasty had the mint marks like "boo ciowan" and boo yuwan" in Manchu.
<< <i>It certainly caught my attention. I have it right here.
Slightly larger than a Morgan it weighs 23 Grams. and seems to have some silver content.
As some of the other links indicate, it's probably as shown therein.
Pretty cool though & interesting!
Since a Morgan weighs about 26 grams, and your coin weighs less, yet is actually larger, I can conclude only 1 of 2 possibilities. Either your coin is thinner than a Morgan, or its not made of silver. A magnet never lies!
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<< <i>odd that she does not know the two smaller characters on the obverse to the right of the head >>
Actually it's three characters, the top two are just very close together. The top character has several meanings, the most usual one being "sun".
Don't criticize MsMorrisine's wife too harshly - my Beautiful Bride can't decipher the last character at all, even with the aid of her new $250 electronic Japanese-English dictionary, and she can't find an appropriate meaning for the middle one either.
The characters are absolutely not Manchu! >>
OK, I tried google.
I think it is two and I think it is his given name.
link1 (under picture on right)
link2
link3
The top and bottom Chinese characters on a one cash coin of this emperor matches the top two middle characters on Boom's piece.
Remember to read from right to left. Somebody has already pointed out that the emperor's name was in the middle of the inscription.
Ms. Morrisine is right, by the way. Those are the two characters of the Daoguang Emperor's given name.
I appreciate it. Now I'll email this thread to my buddy
and he'll know what he has, for sure - thanks to you guys!