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Angela (Australia)

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Hello all, found my very first chinese coin! Went for a drive yesterday looking for a chinese oven we'd heard about, but had never seen. Finally found it after walking around for an hour or so in the bush. Then detected a site not far from there, and wow, I was rapt! I was the envy of Garry, who always wanted to find one!
Cheers Angela:)
 
Cool "oven" and nice coin. My son found one of those coins here in the states at a park. Now what is a chinese oven?

Bob
 
Hello Bob,
It was a Chinese ceremonial oven used on special feast days, when a whole pig was roasted to mark the event. Most of the buildings have long since disappeared, destroyed by fire, or roadworks, and perhaps through slucing in later years.
Angela
 
Its a good find! Chinese coins are used only during the period that the reigning emperor rules. Yours looks like the 2nd pic in the link below:

http://www.sportstune.com/chinese/coins/taokuang/1cash.html
 
That's a very interesting find Angela. Was that right there in Australia? , and if so what were the Chinese doing there back in the 1800's I wonder? You definitly have some of the most interesting searches and finds I've seen on this forum. Keep it up.:geek::|:O:yo::|
 
Hello Marc,
There's a fair bit of history around here involving the Chinese. The Europeans were suspicious of them and nick named them the "celestials" because of the yellowish skin colouring. You can imagine the Chinese with their ceremonial rites and way of life were, how strange to outsiders. But here in the Gippsland district, particularly in the Jordan valley, where I found the coin, they also had an interest in mining. Most Chinese here were miners, sunk their shafts and drove adits into the mountains. But they also were into aluvial mining (panning for gold).The very last Chinese to have survived those days in this district died on 28 November 1905, recorded in the "Gippsland Miner's Standard". The paper stated he died at 84 years of age.
Angela:)
 
Hello Doug,
Thank you very much for that info on the coin. I had no idea how to go about finding out how to date the coin. I'd love to get a Chinese person to read the coin for me. I will look up the link on your post. Much appreciated!
Cheers Angela:cheers::):minelab:
 
Angela,

If you hold the coin as in the 2nd pic...the characters top to bottom say "Tao Kuang" and the words read left to right say "Tung Pao" or current currency. This coin was current currency only while the Emperor reigned.
The words on the other side are not chinese or mandarin characters but manchurian (of Qing Dynasty)...who at the time were not considered foreign and not Han chinese. These characters tell the mintmark and probably the coin unit.

Here are my finds:

Ming Dynasty - Wan Li (1576-1619 a.d.)
[attachment 18154 MingDynastyWan-Lia.jpg]

Qing (or Ching) Dynasty - Kang Hsi (1661-1722 a.d.)
 
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