so hello fellow coin collectors this is Glenn back with another video and today
we're going to talk about the Chinese coins issued by Queen Mum so Quinlan was
a Chinese emperor and his brain was at the end of the 1700s so 1735 to 1795 so
it's actually quite a long reign and he actually did abdicate he's wanted a few
Chinese emperors that actually abdicated through son and he'd done that to not
eclipse his father so he didn't want to reign longer than what his father
actually did and so if he didn't actually did it he could have actually
lost that quite a bit longer probably into the 1800s so that is a sign that he
was more of a moderate and a fair emperor in Everett rulers have been in
the past so if we have a look at the actual coin the top and bottom is clean
long tin lung so Quinn Long's a man during and on this side we have a Tong
Bao so official currency or something like that and here I've got the actual
page so these coins are pretty much value to back to $2 I tend to want to
actually get these coins in bulk so I usually pay for between one and two
dollars for each coin but they shouldn't actually cost too much to actually again
and as you can see screen is 24 millimeters and the average weight of
these coins to bear three and a half to four and a half grams so but I have seen
coins are actually two and a half grams up into five grams so because these
coins were actually cast so modern coins were actually minted so you can see a
lot of pitting and a lot of so when people mean caste
and saying see how there's a lots of dots in it lots of pitting this one's a
bit rough in the background this is smooth so that would have been worn down
a bit and when you get a lot of ancient Roman and Greek coins and also European
as well and they say it's been cast this is actually what they mean you can see
all these detailing the cars going but in Chinese it's actually pretty normal
and they actually did not actually use the striking method that we did in the
Western in India so they coins are actually struck like this Roman coin
which gives it a more clear field this one to be created better detail or also
this coin here and this coin here even oh it's just a legend is based on the
tradition is used by the Greeks which are the Romans adopted so it's also a
struck coin so you can actually see that if it's cast there's probably would be
bubbles in it that would actually disturb the actual written form so it'll
be a lot harder to actually interpret what it actually means oh you should
look at these Chinese cash coins even though it has a simple inscription he
does have some actual see some breakage just so as a break each day is like
there's a bubble right in the middle there and but this one is actually quite
good let me see if I can get a one that's not as clear
so here's one it's not as clear as you can see there's a lot of arm
breakages in the actual coin a lot of pitting a lot of bubbles so that's what
actually can happen to a cast coin to actually make it a little bit not as
readable and striking so that's one thing now if you'll notice is that there
is different sizes so here you can see that oh there's a different Emperor
maybe maybe not it's maybe it's just a different script
so okay you just want the same script so here we have two the same script as you
can see this one actually has a lot of problems with the casting method and
there is a difference in size so it doesn't mean it there is a difference in
white there is a difference in size probably about three or four millimeters
and this is actually caused by the actual coin they used to impress in the
actual clay and if you're looking at you can see these are actually two different
mints so this is our Board of Works so let me get one exactly the same in so
border works and the same Emperor and what actually causes this well when I
actually put the actual coin in the clay so I actually get the coin they can
press it in the clay on one side and actually make a branch so to have like a
few coins going up like this so they have them spaced like that then they
have a branch going up with a connection to each and that's so they can actually
have a central point we'd actually porty actual metal in metal goes down filss up
these spaces and then I can actually take
apart the actual tree so that's what it's actually called a tree and after
they actually in Casa coins these actually shrink because a metal when you
know if you know any chemistry when an element is hot not only metal anything
else even our skin it actually expands and then when it cools and solidifies so
it turns into a solid it actually contracts and that's what actually
happens to these coins and if you actually use this coin to make another
coin it's gonna actually be smaller then the original coin so probably turned out
to be probably a millimeter smaller so probably like that and if you use that
coin hmm make another coin it's gonna turn that small as well
and then if you keep on going and continuing in that process so you've got
the ancestral process of the actual coin then eventually you'll get to a small
coin which is caused by just the shrinkage in the actual metal itself so
that's why these coins actually are different sizes now in Chinese means
they actually had a master coin so that's a coin that I actually used to
first put the other coins and notes are actually quite big so probably about
that big so this might have been a master coin would just might have been
one of the first coins actually produce this is actually a different Emperor and
these were kept at the mint that we're not supposed to be for circulation
they're supposed to be to make the actual flower tree and even though the
coins shrink so these coins here actually the normal
size for a cash coin and if I show you to the older coins so here we have paid
this is a whole goal for Wang men so this is about two thousand years old and
here we have a tycoon from the Tang Dynasty so it's probably six to nine
hundred so it's okay one thousand four hundred to one thousand one hundred
years old and as you can see although they're a little bit smaller most coins
are actually pretty much detain size coins so gonna take that one and show
comparison it's a little bit about one or two millimeters smaller but it
actually suits um the size range so as you can see in Tang Dynasty coins had a
similar inscription as he cling long coin as well so most of the coins that
I've got at a Board of Revenue and we have a look at the actual coins I've
actually put in flips you can see this is the Board of Revenue where any other
ones okay here I have another one this is Coll COI one so what he meant you
inscription so this is imagine this is boo
this just means mean and this is the actual mint name itself Co one so that's
the Board of Revenue and it actually translates the fountainhead of currency
and then we have the same one another Board of Revenue
ah here they are I understand and here we have a board of works so it's
different inscription and theirs are both Beijing so as you can see this bowl
you won the source of all currency so Board of Works then we have the means
are actually provincial so the actually around different areas of China
this is bold you boo you this is mu chan mu Bai and then we have the Gong si mean
oh boy as you can see they're different inscriptions so the boo was also always
the same but in earlier don't rains of the Emperor's actually might have had
this in actual Chinese or maybe a mixture of mentoring choice but I'll do
a video on that later this is born T tink ya and as you can
say queen long Tong Bao Tong Bao and you can see that the actual variation in the
actual star of the calligraphy although the casting does alter that a little bit
from the original but today basically what you should what a Chinese cash coin
actually looks like these provincial ones are pretty much probably about
three or four dollars each I would say because they're not as common they would
have been minted for a just the region and regions around it but these ones
made in Beijing would have been minted for the whole country and if I mean
wasn't working for a certain area they just would have transported these to the
area that needed actual coins and that certain periods of time there was
private mints actually operated so and certain periods of time individuals
actually me make the ring coins like I black sea's mainly probably shops they
could have ordered coins from blacksmiths and then I circulated and
Miss change but generally does a are usually to make a profit so they would
have been slightly smaller in white than the actual
official coin because there was no real
reason for a central government to actually make these at a lesser why it
just would have debase the currency and then there would have actually had to
make more also another thing is that China at this time they never use gold
or silver coins so when someone actually say is that Oh Karen real currency is
gold in silver and if it's not gone into oven it's not real money world that
that's not really how it has worked in the past it's usually based on the two
people agreeing on a to exchange one product for another in China has always
used up until 1880 in God's in gold and silver so they would have actually
weighed the gold and silver and that's why if you get a lot of coins that would
have circulated in China they have a lot of what they called chop marks on them I
don't think I have any yeah but I did just in impressions on the coin used to
test to see what's actually real gold or silver and usually in Chinese characters
as well so I hope this video was informative about Klingon Tong Bao
Chinese cash coin and I'll leave a link down below to eBay so you can check to
see if there's any good Chinese cash coins that you can actually buy and like
I say thank you very much and have a or 'some click in time