Who can identify this modern-ish Asian coin?

airplanenut · February 17, 2012 8:45AM

I thought it looked Taiwanese (I still do) but I don't see it listed in Krause (2006 ed.) I also checked China and Japan for good measure. Anyone have any hints?

Thanks,

Jeremy

candy2012mustang · February 17, 2012 9:06AM

Republic of China (Taiwan), Sun Yat-Sen on the Obverse. I can't find it in my 2007 Edition either.

ormandh · February 17, 2012 9:24AM

It looks like a medal issue to me, but then again I am not an expert of Chinese coins.-Dan

Muygrandeoso · February 17, 2012 9:29AM

I am no expert either, but I think that Ormandh is right. I love the die clash on the reverse.

Chris

Sapyx · February 17, 2012 10:55AM

It's a medal, not a coin. I bought one exactly the same from a dealer's scratchtray many years ago and was similarly puzzled by it, until a coin club member told me it was a medal. I'd assumed it was Taiwanese too, but he pointed out it uses the Simplified Chinese characters preferred on the Mainland. He thought it could have been a mainland souvenir from his Mausoleum in Nanjing or one of the other sites dedicated to him.

<< I love the die clash on the reverse. >>

It's "ghosting", not a die clash.

sumnom · February 18, 2012 6:49AM

It is a medal but it is also produced by the Chinese mint.

MagnaDealer · February 19, 2012 12:57AM

medal, may be produced by china mint

whats the metal?

airplanenut · February 19, 2012 2:18AM

<< medal, may be produced by china mint

whats the metal? >>

I'm tempted to say aluminum. It weighs 8.2g and is 30mm in diameter. It just doesn't feel substantial enough to be silver.

ormandh · February 19, 2012 7:38AM

copper nickel?

sumnom · February 19, 2012 8:35AM

<< medal, may be produced by china mint

whats the metal? >>

It was indeed produced by the Chinese mint. It says so right on the medal.

airplanenut · February 19, 2012 8:38AM

<< copper nickel? >>

Could be, but there's no copper edge as seen on US Cu-Ni coins.

ormandh · February 19, 2012 9:59AM

Aluminum pratically has no weight at all(it is basically 1/4 of the weight of silver). I am banking on the color and the detail your coin is indeed copper-nickel. US copper-nickel coinage is clad with the exception of the Jefferson nickel. You do not see the copper in the Jefferson issues. JMHO. -Dan

satootoko · February 19, 2012 11:33PM

<< there's no copper edge as seen on US Cu-Ni coins. >>

That's a characteristic of clad coins, not cu-ni ones. Planchets for US clad coinage are punched from a "sandwich" of two cu-ni strips with a copper strip in between. A coin struck on a planchet from a single strip of any alloy will have a uniform-colored edge.

Who can identify this modern-ish Asian coin?

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