China, Japanese occupation

[capnbirdseye]

Reformed government of China, HUA HSING COMMERCIAL BANK

I presume this is Y#522 10 Fen, 1940,  weight 3.00g


On March 28, 1938 the Japanese Central China Expeditionary
Army established the Reformed Government of the
Republic of China at Nanking (Nanjing).
HUA HSING COMMERCIAL BANK
The Hua Hsing Commerce Bank was a financial agency created
and established by the government of Japan and its puppet
authorities in Shanghai in May 1939. Notes and coins were issued
until sometime in 1941, with the quantities restricted by Chinese
aversion to accepting them.

[<k>]

Is that meant to be a representation of some kind of insect on the top image?

[capnbirdseye]

Is that meant to be a representation of some kind of insect on the top image?

The catalogue describes it as ' Floral bouquet'  but I think You'd need a rather vivid imagination to see flowers in that symbol

[translateltd]

I always took it to be a stylised Chinese character, though which one is open to interpretation!

[Harald]

BTW, regarding  http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,11779.0.html

The object on the reverse of the Huaxing 10 fen is a Chinese character in the ancient seal script. According to Schön's cataloge the meaning is "longevity". I cannot verify this right now since I haven't found any modern character which looks similar (this is anyway tricky, since the seal script is some 3000 years old). But Schön is usually pretty reliable, and the picture is definitely no flower bouquet 

The character in the center of the obverse is an old form of 華 = huá (short for the bank's name, 華興商業銀行 = Huaxing Commercial Bank).

cheers
--
Harald

[capnbirdseye]

Thanks for adding more info on my coin 

The flower bouquet description is in the KM catalogue and where they got that description from I can't imagine, but then again there are lots of errors in KM but they only print stuff given to them by so called experts 

[andyg]

, but then again there are lots of errors in KM but they only print stuff given to them by so called experts 

Have a look at the latest contributors list....
At least 8 of them I know are members of this board

[Prosit]

The papers they send to me to comment on are pretty well accurate and need no tweaking.
I would love to contribute but in my area at least they tend to get it right.
Dale

Have a look at the latest contributors list....
At least 8 of them I know are members of this board

[capnbirdseye]

Have a look at the latest contributors list....
At least 8 of them I know are members of this board

& without doubt they know their stuff & I wouldn't for one minute think any members of this board would give wrong info to KM


creeps away hoping nobody notices   

[translateltd]

... and there is often a divergence between what is supplied and what is printed!

[gxseries]

characters are as follows:

http://www.internationalscientific.org/CharacterEtymology.aspx?submitButton1=Etymology&characterInput=%E5%8D%8E

http://www.internationalscientific.org/CharacterEtymology.aspx?submitButton1=Etymology&characterInput=%E5%96%9C

Did take me a while to think about that one!

[capnbirdseye]

here's the KM listing, although to be fair it's listing is taken from another catalogue/ Y number

[gxseries]

Time to change Krause's description for real.

[Harald]

http://www.internationalscientific.org/CharacterEtymology.aspx?submitButton1=Etymology&characterInput=%E5%96%9C

Did take me a while to think about that one!

very interesting.

still, the character "xi" does look a little different from the "floral bouquet", doesn't it?
the latter appears to have more strokes (or fewer, in case consists of a character with its mirror image). 

cheers
--
Harald

[gxseries]

Harald, I still think I'm right. Probably just a bit of "calligraphy" going on there which makes it look slightly different. The character does make sense and suits what it stands for.