Help ID please

Just getting to the last few un-identified coins from my last world coin lot...  

These 4 look old and toasted but I am curious to know if they are of any interest. Can anyone ID and point to the Numista catalog listing for them?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Coin # 1

Coin # 2

Coin # 3

Coin # 4




Other side is Toast.

They are all Chinese cash, and are all close to worthless (if not worthless).

Cash are very, very cheap to begin with, and yours are all damaged.

Thanks for the analysis,
I wasn't concerned with value as much as I was curious to know the age, country, type, etc.. It's pretty clear they are trash as for as condition. These were a few of the culls that were left at the bottom of a huge and otherwise very profitable world coin lot I recently purchased..  I have to say I was literally scraping the bottom of the barrel, or in my case it was a wine bottle case, when I pulled these out for identification.

Actually the fact that they are trash kind of works out for me... You see my wife has this Buddha statue, kinda looks a little like me, and her Asian manicurist gifted her a Chinese coin to place on it's belly for good luck.. Well the coin is actually a 1938 French Indo-China 1/2 cent and it's in Choice Extreeemely Fine condition, and so I want it..

So she arranged to swap it to me for an authentic Chinese coin to replace it with..

   It's like killing 3 birds with one stone huh....   

Just saying, the first two are Qing.

Since I can't read Chinese, in cannot indentify the other one.

#1 and #3 are https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces7996.html. #1 looks fake though.
I can't read #2 well, but if its a Xianfeng cash that's bigger than most. If I guess the characters right it's worth 100 small cash coins.
#4 is a Tongzhi cash. Can't identify without the reverse.

Citeer: fliegendehollander#1 and #3 are https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces7996.html. #1 looks fake though.
I can't read #2 well, but if its a Xianfeng cash that's bigger than most. If I guess the characters right it's worth 100 small cash coins.
#4 is a Tongzhi cash. Can't identify without the reverse.

Thanks for the links..
That's interesting news about 1 and 3..
Unfortunately the reverse on #4 was too corroded to photograph...

Number 2 is not worthless.

It's a fairly uncommon coin.

Citeer: SmartOneKgNumber 2 is not worthless.

It's a fairly uncommon coin.

Thanks for your input.
For me just the fact that they are old gives them tons of historical value.
And that to me makes them worth something regardless of what the price guide says..

Citeer: harry213And that to me makes them worth something regardless of what the price guide says..

Whatever dude.

If they are from the Qian-long era then they're worth little to nothing, as historical as they may be. Number 2 is pretty historical cause it's from the Xianfeng era, which is during the Opium War.

Citeer: SmartOneKg

Citeer: harry213And that to me makes them worth something regardless of what the price guide says..

Whatever dude.

If they are from the Qian-long era then they're worth little to nothing, as historical as they may be. Number 2 is pretty historical cause it's from the Xianfeng era, which is during the Opium War.

Whatever is right, Dude,

   It's all Chinese to me... ...........

At this point their monetary value is nowhere near as significant as the focus that's being placed on it here.. They are going to be collecting dust until they get knocked off my wife's table and sucked up by the vacuum cleaner, and eventually end up as landfill.   

Citeer: harry213...until they get knocked off my wife's table and sucked up by the vacuum cleaner, and eventually end up as landfill.

That's like throwing away a quarter.

These coins aren't worth nothing at all, but they are worth little.

Citeer: SmartOneKg

Citeer: harry213...until they get knocked off my wife's table and sucked up by the vacuum cleaner, and eventually end up as landfill.

That's like throwing away a quarter.

These coins aren't worth nothing at all, but they are worth little.

Well I am surprised to hear that as they are quite damaged. But hey they'll serve a purpose!