Fake Chinese coins! How to tell if ancient Chinese coins are fake.

Welcome everyone! Today I'm talking about how to tell whether an ancient Chinese coin from the Tang to Qing dynasty is real or fake. This method will work most of the time with almost all coins from this period. I also have a fake coin with me so you can all see the difference youselves!
Also, thanks to everyone for 100 subs, this is a massive milestone and I wasn't too sure if I should make this or something else for you all but, hopefully, this is something you guys want to watch!
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[@obiarne]

I teach economy in high school and I want to do a workshop for my students around foreign currencies and international trade. I had some strange coins lying around here and found this small Chinese coin (Kangxi Tongbao, after long research). I already thought it was fake, but your video was really helpful, informative and made me sure about it :) Thank you!

[@LouisetheLithead]

Great vid that succinctly describes the attributes of true Chinese coins. Very helpful! Thank you!

[@DefensiveIdiot]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ChristopherPBacon1]

Nice video. Very informative for coin collectors!

[@muhammadabidzar1528]

Did you buy it, sir, China no fake coins, I have a lot of them

[@ScottPalmer-mp1we]

I found what is probably a fake Chinese coin on a playground with my metal detector. Even though the coin is almost certainly fake, it was still an unusual find for a playground so I'm glad I found it.

[@DefensiveIdiot]

Odd to find it there but nice one! Shame its a fake but at least it has a cool story behind it.

[@michaelbuckley8986]

Thanks for that. I got an old box with more than 100 of these coins not tested. Now hopefully I can sort the wheat from the chaff👍

[@tinasmith1129]

I found a foreign coin with the same sign on both sides. It has 3 slashes on top of a line with 2 slashes on the end. It has a line going down the middle with a total of 3legs but it has a second line under the first line with one slash on the right side.. This is my description of the symbol. Can you let me know if you can tell me what it is.

[@musicman-bq2bf]

Hello, I have a few large Chinese coins that how and where can I identify them?

[@DefensiveIdiot]

The same method works typically

[@annaloulapera9783]

I have very old coins not the yellow one that you bite?

[@noloferratus]

The NGC, ANACS and PCGS won't verify Chinese cast coins so I don't believe it is easy as that. Plus I have David Hartill's book on cast Chinese coins and many coins listed don't provide exact weights or thicknesses.

[@r1nshikawa]

it's definitely not easy to verify Chinese coin, ancient & modern even for profesional......fake one could be real, the one you thought to be real could be fake

[@jomon723]

Oh and you could use a metal detector to test, the readings should be around foil to American nickel 👍🏻

[@jomon723]

easy for me, all my coins I have dug myself over the last 35 years :)) I did buy a knife coin once, I guess it's the real thing :)) Thanks for the info

[@Jackson-sk4ls]

alguem sabe sobre esse Asian coinin ? eu fiz o cadastro mais ainda não sei se é fake

[@britainluver431]

I've got a Shunzhi Tong Bao coin from the Qing Dynasty, and it thankfully isn't thin.

[@Pajdas610]

To anyone well-versed in Chinese coins: Where might one find authentic Qin Dynasty coins? How difficult are they to authenticate? What would be the price of such coins?

[@Joe__Smith]

It's going to be really tough to find a coin that can be attributed to the Qin dynasty (211-207 BCE). The problem is that the type of coin that was issued at that time - the ban liang - was minted continuously from either 378 or 344 BCE to 118 BCE, and you can't necessarily pick out a coin and assign it to the narrow time frame of 221-207 BCE. Be aware that it was thought until the 1990s that the minting of ban liang coins began as late as 221 BCE. This means that a coin dealer using outdated attributions might attribute a really early (large) coin to the time of the first emperor, while such a coin must logically be older than that. Maybe you could work on assembling a selection of different ban liang varieties instead?

[@bubbisvali]

Coin 🥰😁 Fake coin 😢😫

[@guh967]

Yes 👍

[@engilinesonbise8301]

How

[@nitaseely6830]

啊还要看包浆跟听声音啥的呀

[@DefensiveIdiot]

都要，但是所有人不能做到。要做好多練習先可以做。 You are right! Despite this, not everyone is able to do that as it takes a lot of practice to be able to do that. Sorry for my bad written Chinese.

[@mr.iforgot3062]

Im an idiot. I enjoy eating small coins. Smaller the better I found out. My throat cavity gets stuck when I swallow larger diameter coins. I either have to cut them into smaller portions or just not eat them. I learned this from old British pennies. American pennies are not a problem 1909 and up. Butt not anything larger. I want to thank you for letting me waste your time with total nonsense. Good bye.

[@crappyanimations2678]

Same😩

[@yonoutomo6131]

I have 3 pieces boss

[@troysvisualarts]

If you tried bending a real Chinese coin with your teeth that was found in the soil with a metal detector it would likely break lol. Anyhow thanks for the pointers, have found a Chinese coin with my metal detector near a beach, it is greenish and has no symbols on the back, it is slightly thicker than a genuine 17th century worn Chinese coin I found in the dirt and the symbols on the front are elevated. Will have to do some research on identifying it, it might be real.

[@annaloulapera9783]

I have like this coins where i sale

[@David-og7di]

and where would that be?

[@DefensiveIdiot]

I'd suggest selling it on ebay or try selling it on a Discord server.

[@herodotus6235]

Reassuring, but there are much better fakes than this! Also, genuine Qing dynasty coins often are that bright golden colour - they are only 200 - 300 years old after all, not 1000 years + like the Tang and Song coins. Colour is by no means a mark of what is genuine. I have over 12 genuine Chong Ning tong bao in my collection of the emperor Huizong, last emperor of the Northern Song. They have been gently cleaned and they look as if they were struck yesterday!!

[@DefensiveIdiot]

You are in no way wrong mate! This video is more of a beginner video as there are a lot better fakes and anyone who gets ahold of a real one in such good contidion like the ones you mentioned probably wouldn't need the info in this video. Thanks so much for your comment and I do fully agree!

[@BlueArchiveGaming]

I have coin qing dynasty real and northern song dynasty

[@David-og7di]

you sure about that?

[@vikaovalia1909]

I have rare coin from qing dinasty.

[@David-og7di]

sure you do

[@vikaovalia1909]

Do you want to buy my old coin?

[@senda3773]

I found the characters, but I cannot find a picture of the coin on numista, it seems it was part of the (secret society? front 太平通寶 back ᠪᠣᠣ ᠶᡡᠨ )I’m not entirely sure where to find it on numista. However, it’s all raised, not magnetic, when I got it , it was broken in half and is thin. But I can’t tell if it’s fake though.