One bizarre Chinese overstruck coin

Started by gxseries, February 20, 2012, 12:06:16 PM

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gxseries

Here's one bizarre coin that arrived recently. It's a Sichuan 200 cash which normally is struck on fresh planchets instead of some random older coins. There's a bit of rotation error but that's beside the coin.




What the original coin was it seemed to be a Sichuan 1906 20 cash. An example can be seen here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/China-Szechuan-Province-20-Cash-Dragon-Coin-Yellow-Brass-Very-Nice-/230745666540?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b98373ec

If you look carefully of where the words "Sze" of Szechuan, it is actually at the bottom left, around 7-9 o'clock. But the text is indented - perhaps a brockage. The original coin die alignment seems to be coin alignment instead of the usual medal alignment. Pretty wierd but I wouldn't be too suprised that error coins were used as overstrikes to get rid of them instead of melting them down.

Chinasmith

This coin is often found overstruck on older Chinese coins, but this one was really poorly made.   Thats good for you.
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