what is this

I found this the other day and if you can see in the photo it say dillar not dollar???

[www.thetreasuredepot.com]

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Looks oriental A larger photo and a photo of the other side would be helpful

Lawrenzo,

That looks like a Chinese Silver Dollar AKA 'Dragon Dollar'.
[www.dragondollar.com]

BUT...
I'm not familiar enough to know if any were legit with the obvious misspelling.

(In other words, it might be a counterfeit chinese coin...for a change.)

mike



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/11/2015 03:06AM by Mike in CO.

My guess is that it may be a a older chinese fantasy piece, or a really poor counterfeit chinese silver dollar.

Nice find, whatever it is!!!!

My wife is Chinese and she says it is a counterfit Chinese silver dollar. A modern fake. Probably not silver. But it could be real silver. Center of coin says one Yuan. About 16 cent in U.S. Money. Sorry it is not real. In China I dug a few of their older coins that have the square hole in the center. No date. Figure they are at least a couple hundred years old, maybe quite a bit older. They did not put dates on them during that time. Still trying to clean the cookie crust off of them without destroying them after over a year. Cool looking coin though. Sorry for the bad response...Stuart

found this on eBay:

[www.ebay.com]

the one on eBay is probably a replica of the one you found, assuming yours has been in the ground a long time?

is it the size of a silver dollar?

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Stuart........... most Chinese coins do not have dates on them; rather, an era of emperor/dynasty identifies time-frame.

But this has one dllar on it what is up with that

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I found something online called a Chinese Fantasy Dollar. Search for that and check out the various images. Some appear to be pretty similar to your find.

These days I hear you can buy Chinese Fantasy Metal Detectors.

Its a dragon dolllar althoug yours is fake I believe...Or a fantasy copy...

notice the word Dollar is spelled DLLAR

real ones are quite expensive I believe..??

Keith

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What if it's a real one with a mint error (in the misspelling of dollar)? How valuable would it be then?
From the picture, it has the look of old silver, best I can tell.

Wayne

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I was offered two grand for it today at a coin dealer so now I'm really baffled

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If you don’t dig it, then how are you going to know what you’re missing!
How can you have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat!

I might would have let him have it! Did he give you a real value and the 2K was his offer............. Dang!!!!!

I would sell it to the dealer and save your duckets for the next latest and greatest machine that comes out ><

Lowboy

would you please take a better/closer up picture of the coin so we can see some better detail?

What did the dealer say exactly? From what I can find out from Chinese people that I know is that no dates were on coins until around 1948 or 1949. Never were there any American English on earlier coins. So from that I would say it is probably a fake if it is a Chinese coin. It could be from somewhere else however, such as Taiwan or Hongkong. From what I can gather, ONLY emperors were allowed to print coins for their personal use that contained the dragon emblem. All of this is my opinion from what little I understand of Chinese currency. So maybe it is very rare, just not Chinese per say. Was this found on a sight that only has older relics? Anyway I hope yours is real. Cool find no matter what...Stuart

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>From what I can find out from Chinese people that I know is that
> no dates were on coins until around 1948 or 1949.
> Never were there any American English on earlier coins.
>...Stuart

Stuart,
Here's a pic of the very popular/collectible 'Y31 Chinese silver dollar' minted in 1911:

Note the similarity to the OP pics.
Also note the English.



I'm with Lawrenzo, though...his is obviously mis-spelled, and I can't find any reference to that error in the legit coin world.


mike



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/14/2015 06:50AM by Mike in CO.

Thanks for all of your input it's the Dllar that gives this coin life I can find no info but he said it is all silver no fillers...two grand....I'll go to a dealer I know in San Francisco and see what she says

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What you have there, Lowboy, is a marvelous find!
The shroud of mystery, the riddle; your find is an enigma.
You hunted, you found. Now you hunt again for the meaning of what you found. Terrific!

Wayne

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