Does anyone recognise this? Its central hole is irregular and presumably not supposed to be there. It looked to me like Chinese on one side and something resembling Arabic on the other, and if that's true and I've got the respective texts the right way up, the two sides are at right angles, as represented in the photos. As this is probably unlikely, I guess it's not actually Arabic but perhaps something decorative, or else a vertical script like Mongolian?
Oh right. No, sorry, I wasn't very clear above: the photos were taken at right angles to each other. My coin is as shown on the coin page, so it should be genuine.
It's a machine-struck cash from Guangdong, during the Guangxu era. These are much less common than the larger machine struck cash, but they are relatively common in high grades.
Kenny
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Цитата: manxcat12It's a replica Gangxu 1 cash. The writing on the back is Manchu, used in the Chinese region of Manchua.
The Manchu script is not on the coin for regional reasons, but rather because the imperial Qing-dynasty, who ruled China at the time, was of Manchu origin.
Цитата: ArnoVThe Manchu script is not on the coin for regional reasons, but rather because the imperial Qing-dynasty, who ruled China at the time, was of Manchu origin.
^ He's right.
Although Manchu is a dead literature, places like Mongolia and the Manchurian region still use it, but not for everyday use; they use Cyrillic and Chinese, respectively.
After the Qing dynasty you will find very few coins anywhere in the world using Manchu.
Kenny
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