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Posted by slang on July 28, 2010
In the recent Mavin International Singapore’s coin auction, of all the chinese dragon coins being auctioned, the following from Kirin Province fetched a high value:
Chinese Kirin Dragon Coin Auctioned At Mavin International -realized USD5,800 before premium & gst
Posted by slang on June 7, 2010
CHINESE COINS, Empire, General Issues Pattern Silver Tael, ND (c.1858) source:sixbid.com
The above mentioned coin is a very interesting very rare Chinese Empire, General Issues: Pattern Silver Tael, ND (c.1858) which the obverse shows a Silver One Tael Kwan Ping within circle, surrounded by Chinese Foreign Circulating Coin. On the reverse side we have the Ying-yang symbol at centre encompassed by the eight trigrams, two dragons chasing each other in the outer circle, reeded edge
This silver coin struck by the Royal Mint, London as part of the unsuccessful British effort to solicit coining business from the Chinese Imperial Court . This coin was auctioned at estimate price range of US$100,000-120,000 but was left unsold.
Posted by slang on June 5, 2010
In future, when you are going for coin-buying trips, please do carry a tiny little magnet.This tiny gadget is quite a handy tool to help you to save some money particularly when you are facing unsrupulous sellers who want to cheat you by representing that their coins are indeed genuine chinese dragon coin.
An-Hwei crown chinese dragon coin-real or counterfeit??
NOW tested using a little magnet. WOW the coin sticks very tightly to the magnet!
CLOSER AND MORE FOCUS VIEW
In my earlier articles, besides the above, there are stil many ways to look at a counterfeit chinese dragon coin- the weight, the sound,the strikes and more important see more of the genuine coins.
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