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FREE: EXTREMELY RARE CHINESE 1899 KIANG NAN PROVINCE 7.2 CANADAREEN (10CENT) COIN BONUS 64 SILVER US DIME!

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The listing, EXTREMELY RARE CHINESE 1899 KIANG NAN PROVINCE 7.2 CANADAREEN (10CENT) COIN BONUS 64 SILVER US DIME! has ended.

Please note... The last two pictures are for reference only...the coin in this auction is ungraded...just shown for comparison.
Up for auction is an extremely rare Chinese coin from the Kiang Nan Provence. 1899 7.2 candareens or equivalent of a dime or 10 cents. These coins..from what I've read are super rare. I found this one in my spare change! So I figured I'd pass it along to a true coin collector. On eBay an AU58 coin is up for auction now for almost 1400 bucks...I added the pictures to that auction just as a reference..these coins are hard to date...but all of the Chinese symbols from the graded one matches the coin I have up...that's how I came up with the date. I'll do my best to answer any questions...though I'm really not good with coins. As a bonus...also included will be a 1964 silver Roosevelt dime..the final year the US mint used silver in circulation coins. If anyone viewing this can add any information to this auction...please feel free to do so. Thanks for looking...best of luck.
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I updated another picture from Google books where the 1899 coin does not have a dot between the 7&2.

Questions & Comments

will this stick to a magnet and is there a dot between the 7 and the 2....thanks

Sep 21st, 2015 at 5:11:08 PM PDT by

Hey Joe..check out the last photo I found...this is from Google books...the 1899 kiang nan in the photo doesn't have the dot either. Do you collect foreign coins by chance?

Sep 21st, 2015 at 5:39:20 PM PDT by

I don't see a dot between the numbers..and it does not stick to a magnet..and I weighed it..it weighs 2.6 teams..my scale doesn't go to the hundred gram.

Sep 21st, 2015 at 5:24:30 PM PDT by

No dot between the numbers...magnet will not stick...and I weighed it at 2.6 grams. Some of the pictures on Google have a dot...some do not. Not sure if it rubbed off..or if it differs from years. I found it cleaning out my pocket a while back.

Sep 21st, 2015 at 5:28:21 PM PDT by

And the Roosevelt dime in the picture is not the one for this auction. I was using it to scale..and found the dime after the life were taken.

Sep 21st, 2015 at 5:29:40 PM PDT by

i have an interest in asian coins but from many years experience i know that china produces reproductions of almost every coin it ever produced...a lot of their repros are so very good that it takessomeone with a fairly good amount of knowledge in them to be able to spot the difference tsometime it will come down to using a micrometer to determine the exactness of the thickness of the coins....from what i can see from the pics you have your coin looks good..the characters are right,,the spacing is good and the wear looks like this was in use...Other than all that i cant say absolutely but as i said before it looks good from what i see.

Sep 21st, 2015 at 5:52:29 PM PDT by

Thanks for the info...why do some have the dot..and some do not..I was reading that they used several different die when they were made. I actually went to my local grocery store with a big bag of change and ran it through one of the coinstar kiosks...it kept kicking it out...so I finally took a look ...it also kicked out the Roosevelt dime a well!! I'm glad it did..must not accept silver. It also hit silver on my metal detector too...does the weight sound correct?

Sep 21st, 2015 at 5:57:10 PM PDT by

the weight is right..it should be 18.8 mm wide ...chinese mints,especially in those times werent very efficient so the dot could have been blocked or had grease in the dot..its always hard to grade coind from early china because of lax production methods...and silver weights are all different in different parts of the world...it was only until recently that silver weights were standardized so the machines just dont recognize the weights...as an example i have some very early libyan things stampedd 777 silver but yet that siver is more valuable than the now standard 999 silver and the kiosk machine woulnt recognize it at all...the world had no standards back then so when it comes to silver coins its best to scour the net and get as much info as you can

Sep 21st, 2015 at 6:13:09 PM PDT by

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