I would like to get some help identifying those Chinese cash coins. I figured out some details already I believe but still would appreciate your help with the others and/or links to numista. Especially #4 is odd.
All coins are ~23-24mm.
From left to right:
1.) Emperor Kangxi, Hartill 22.090
2.) Boo-chiowan, probably Qianlong https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1133.html
3.) Also Boo-chiowan, Emperor Kangxi. Same as coin #1?
4.) Could be Quinlong, boo Yuwam. Odd color, coin has weak magnetic reaction. Maybe a fake?
5.) ?
I'm not an expert on Chinese cash coins but to the best of my knowledge the only other material besides copper/brass/bronze used to make these coins was iron which would be highly magnetic and wouldn't look anywhere as "clean" as that coin. The only material I can think of that could be used to make coins/fakes and would be slightly magnetic would be some grades of stainless steels and non-magnetic grades of stainless steels after being cold worked such as being pressed into a coin. Chinese cash coins were not made of these materials.
Awesome. Thank you so much for your replies. I will look closer at the information you provided.
#4: It's interesting that I can't find anything about the material as it seems to be so odd. If it is a common fake you would think it has been described or discussed before.
Verweis : "MS2007"... #4: It's interesting that I can't find anything about the material as it seems to be so odd. If it is a common fake you would think it has been described or discussed before.
I don't remember any discussion about that. Yet the grained aspect on reverse looks odds.
