Chinese Cast Coin 4 identify 0

[osborne311]

5 grams and 25mm diameter.  Guessing at the orientation.  Chinese wreck off coast of Indonesia.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 26, 2020 by osborne311
orienting coin

[JKK]

Obverse image upside down. Definitely Qing, though.

[osborne311]

20 hours ago, JKK said:

Obverse image upside down. Definitely Qing, though.

I re oriented.  Do you think both sides are correct now?

[JKK]

10 minutes ago, osborne311 said:

I re oriented.  Do you think both sides are correct now?

This is a case where I know rather than think. Obverse (four characters) is right. Reverse (two symbols) is now 180 out. I think it was correct before. The Qing symbol should be on the left, and the Board of Revenue, or Hu-Pu Board of Trade (whichever it is; the one that looks a little like upside down Devanagari) on the right. This is one of very many issues of Xuan Zong, 1821-50. He has like six or seven pages in Hartill just to himself.

[osborne311]

6 minutes ago, JKK said:

This is a case where I know rather than think. Obverse (four characters) is right. Reverse (two symbols) is now 180 out. I think it was correct before. The Qing symbol should be on the left, and the Board of Revenue, or Hu-Pu Board of Trade (whichever it is; the one that looks a little like upside down Devanagari) on the right. This is one of very many issues of Xuan Zong, 1821-50. He has like six or seven pages in Hartill just to himself.

Yes, looking at the coin if the trade character is on the right then the "Boo" character on reverse should be on the left.   I am correcting it now.