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The three coins depicted in this thread are all modern machine-struck imitations of Chinese cash coins of the Qianlong emperor. Feng Shui practitioners believe that cash coins, particularly sets depi… (View Post)

I don't read books as much as I used to; I guess the Internet has made me lazy. For example, back in the day, I'd buy a new Krause catalogue, and I'd read it - cover to cover. Same whe… (View Post)

They were trendy back at the peak of world coin collecting in the early 1970s, and some OFEC collectors still want them, considering them a "separate country". The Riau Archipelago are a gr… (View Post)

While the classical European-centric historical divisions of ancient/medieval/modern are largely meaningless in the Chinese series, I'd agree that the Qing Dynasty is usually regarded as "m… (View Post)

PCGS posted in their official thread on the subject that they are effectively re-defining the word "ancients" so as to include Chinese cash coins. (View Post)