China Chinese Coins Empire General Issues Chinese Dragon Fantasy Coin

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.