Small Chinese Empire Qing coin -

Hello,

Please help to ID this small Chinese coins. It was unearthed in Far East of Russia together with other Chinese coins of Qing dynasty.

Weight: 0,88 g
Size - ~17 mm

Hello Grynia

Hartill talks about degenerate specimen of this one wich are smaller
Maybe it could be one of them
They are smaller than the original one

Hello Guillaume,

Thank you for your opinion. It seems that Zeno classifies such coins as Forgeries for circulation... https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=12623

Seems to be similar to this: https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=169747

But I don't know who may be deceived by such small forgeries....

One more opinion is that such coins were cast at the South of China, for trade with Vietnam

I'll stick with local forgery but instead of trading with vietnam, it is used within the empire.

Chris