PCGS Around the World – Shanghai – A Pair of Chinese Fantasy Coins
PCGS Around the World – Shanghai – A Pair of Chinese Fantasy Coins The area of Chinese numismatics is broad and complex. For a long period of time, some issues were shunned as non-numismatic and labeled as fantasy and forgery issues. This, in part, had to do with the writings of Eduard Kann in his book The Catalog of Chinese Coinage, which was the standard reference for Chinese coins first published in 1954. Kann had seen first-hand some of these pieces made and sold to collectors, tourists, and overseas deployed forces as “coins”, and these pieces surface again being promoted as co...
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