the chinese have been tricky with coins, we (The USA) had to make the trade dollars especially for them early in the opium trade because they would not take paper, and today almost every trade dollar has chop marks on it because they test purity...i once bought four trade dollars off ebay from china, thinking they were real but they were white metal, like pewter, though the counterfeiting was top notch...tricky, yes...
most of these coins as shown are cast yes, but there are specialists who deal in these coins and they are just as crazy about this series as others (Like me-byzantine/crusader coinage 12-13th century) are about theirs...I once made a vow never to sell a coin until i could attribute it 100%, because early on i sold some conserved euro metal detector finds which were very difficult to nail down, the reason? because they were ultra rare...in short- i got my butt kicked
oh well
sometimes you kick, sometimes you get kicked...inxs
zeno has a wealth of info and it will behoove any coin collector to make use of its attributes, its like money in your pocket
if you will get me good scans both obverse and reverse i will see what i can come up with for you
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