File:Hubei 10 cash over Korean 1898 5 fun 03.jpg

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An overstruck Korean 5 Fun coin created by counterfeiters as a higher denomination Chinese coin to be used there with a higher purchasing power.

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English: An overstruck Korean 5 Fun coin created by counterfeiters as a higher denomination Chinese coin to be used there with a higher purchasing power.

Not long after these new copper coins were introduced, black market counterfeit versions of the 10 wén appeared, illegal mints or "private mints" (局私) opened all over China and started producing more coins than the Qing government's set quotas allowed there to be circulating on the market. Both Chinese and foreigners soon started producing struck cash coins of inferior quality often with traces of the Korean 5 fun coins they were overstruck on, or with characters and symbols not found on official government issued coins. Joseon began minting modern-style machine-struck copper-alloy coins in 1892, which was 8 years before the Qing dynasty did so in China. These coins were often minted by Korean businessmen and former Japanese Samurai (specifically Rōnin) looking to make a profit on exchanging the low value copper coins into silver dollars as a single Chinese silver dollar had the purchasing power of 1000 Korean fun. The majority of the counterfeit coins bear the inscription that they were minted in either Zhejiang province or Shandong province, but they circulated all over the coastal regions of China. Because the hand-operated presses used by the counterfeiters did not exert enough pressure on the coins to sufficiently obliterate the inscriptions and symbols on the Korean 5 fun coins, the counterfeit Qing dynasty 10 wén coins made using this method would usually exhibit a combination of both the Chinese Da-Qing Tongbi and Korean 5 fun designs. For example, there can still be traces of a wreath surrounding the dragon or minor traces of the original Korean inscription.[1][2]

  1. ↑ Chinese "10 Cash" Coins Overstruck on Korean "5 Fun" Coins. (in en). Gary Ashkenazy / גארי אשכנזי (Primaltrek – a journey through Chinese culture) (30 April 2012). Retrieved on 3 July 2017.
  2. ↑ Ye Zhenming (叶真铭) for qianbi (钱币) 揭秘"韩改版"铜元(叶真铭)。 Published: 发布日期:12-01-18 08:15:49 泉友社区 新闻来源:www.jibi.net 作者:叶真铭。 Retrieved: 3 July 2017. (in Mandarin Chinese using Simplified Chinese characters)

Within this chaotic period of time, China's coinage has seen fascinating designs as well as how they battled with metal issues as there were copper shortage that they faced. In Eastern part of China, a lot of the provinces imported Korean 5 fun coins to be overstruck as 10 cash. Some coins were struck with lower copper content till the colour difference became obvious. When copper content is lowered, more tin or lead is usually added, making the coin look more yellowish.

  • Zhejiang 10 cash over Korean 1902 5 fun * Hubei 10 cash over Korean 1898 5 fun
Sometimes it seems that copper shortage wasn't the only issue - dies had to be imported from other provinces but would someone be careless enough to not note the provinces on the dies are not the same? Maybe taking some English lessons would have helped.
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