Summary
China Honan
100 Cash 1851 - 1868 (AD)
Mint: Kaifeng
Other Details:
This Chinese brass coin was found by metal detectors scouring abandoned Victorian mining fields. It was brought by one of the thousands of Chinese migrants who flocked to the goldfields during the 1850s.
After the British and Irish, the Chinese community became the largest in Victoria. In 1855 the Victorian government passed Australia's first immigration act, restricting Chinese migration.
Obverse Description
Chinese characters Hsien-feng T'ung-pao around hole
Reverse Description
Mint name in Mandarin characters to left and right of hole; denomination above and below
Edge Description
Plain
More Information
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation
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Date Issued
1851-1868 AD
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Issued By
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Mint
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Inscriptions
Plain (edge) Chinese characters Hsien-feng T'ung-pao around hole (obverse) Mint name in Mandarin characters to left and right of hole; denomination above and below (reverse)
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Denomination
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Series
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Material
Brass
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Axis
12
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Classification
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Exhibition Collection Management
5 mm (Length), 48 mm (Outside Diameter)
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Shape
Round square hole
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References
C#11.6
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