Service for translating and identifying Chinese coins

Hi people!

I would like to start this page just in case anyone needs to know the meaning, translate or identify Chinese coins. I will try my best to respond within a week.

Post your coins with an image, or if not, a link and I will help you to find the coin.

Best regards and sincerely,
SRL

Hello,
If that;s so, then what actually does the Obverse of this coin mean?

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15604.html

with kind regards

Need to know what the Chinese characters are on the obverse of this coin are: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces128057.html

Thanks, nthn

Awesome initiative!
I'd also like to direct everyone who needs to add Chinese lettering to their coins' lettering entry to this site;
http://ce.linedict.com/dict.html#/cnen/home

The drawing feature has been instrumental in helping me get many characters into text to be put in the text box in the past.

Anyway, I'll try to demonstrate my Chinese skills, and if I fail Lolly can take the job up and tell me how I did

Subha; the central characters on that coin, stand for 'Copper Coin of the Great Qing';
the two characters on the left and right 'go together', but I only know the one on the left is 'section'
the string on the bottom is the denomination, but I'm unsure what half of it directly translates as; the last 3, or rather the first 3 characters (since old Chinese is usually right to left) says 'Ten Cash'
Reverse characters on top say 'Made in the reign of Emperor Guangxu'

nthn;
I recognize the word stone in the lower part of your coin's Chinese; and the upper two characters mean 'president' I think. Not sure what the rest could be without using some kind of translate, which I feel would be cheating here.

Citeer: "CassTaylor"Not sure what the rest could be without using some kind of translate, which I feel would be cheating here.

​Umm, I don't care if you "cheat", just give me the translation!

Citeer: "Subha Barua"​Hello,
​If that;s so, then what actually does the Obverse of this coin mean?
​
​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15604.html
​
​with kind regards
​

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Lettering:
午　　　　　　丙
　　　　大
部　幣　　銅　戶
　　　　清
　文十錢制當

from right to left,
丙午 is one year in our traditional year system, the sexagenary cycle. These two mean 1906.

In the centre, it is 大清銅幣 - meaning a coin from Qing.

side, 戶部 is the Board of Revenue and Population.

當制錢十文 = New coins (to differentiate from old and fake coins) 10 Cash

Hope that helped.

Best,
SRL

Citeer: "nthn"​Need to know what the Chinese characters are on the obverse of this coin are: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces128057.html
​
​Thanks, nthn

​總統 = President
蔣介石 = Chiang Kai-Shek

Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975), also romanized as Chiang Chieh-shihand known as Chiang Chungcheng, was a Chinese statesman, political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China.
Chiang – who led the Republic of Chinabetween 1928 and 1975 – was an influential member of the Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist Party, as well as a close ally of Sun Yat-sen's. Chiang became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place ...

Excerpt from Wikipedia.

[UPDATE]
Now I can update the catalogue.

SRL