Friday, August 03, 2007

Does anybody

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Recognize this coin or anything similar to it?



Reverse side



It seems to depict perhaps one of the rulers of china. And the dates of his rule. I picked up 36 of them all different.

If anyone out there can read Chinese and help me out with any of the ideographs it would be much appreciated.

2 comments:

Kat said...

Wow, that is SO COOL - WHERE DID YOU FIND THOSE?! One of my formerly-adopted soldiers, whose whole family i stay in touch with still, is an avid coin-collector. His birthday is next month.... HMMMMM! :) I think i figured out what I'm gettin' him, if they don't cost an arm & a leg, that is. (If so...he gets a card, ROFLOL). Anyway... where'd ya get 'em????????

kdzu said...

I bought them from a pawnshop on the hope they were silver which i think they are. I generally go after the old scrap gold that doesn't sale or is broken. Quite a lot of it out there. The silver I buy as a courtesy to them since it takes so much of it to be worth much. I would hate to break up the set. They are all in plastic holders like a clear plastic business card file. But I'm always willing to dicker.