![]() Also, China Numismatics, from the Chinese Numismatic Society, began running a series on modern fakes about 1996, though usually with no information on how to distinguish them. The curators at the Shanghai Museum see coins from excavations as well as suspicious pieces from the marketplace, and seem to know how to tell. It is encouraging that the fake problem has not effected homeland demand, and I am hopeful that expertise in detecting these modern forgeries will be developed there. Added to the steady demand from Japan, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese, the market for Chinese coins is booming. There are now a significant number of mainland Chinese buying rare coins (ancient and modern). These are still abundant in China and are apparently not being faked. I do not think there is any cause to worry about inexpensive coins, such as ordinary Sung and Ch'ing, or the cheaper reigns of Ming, regular pan-liang, wu-shu, kai-yuan and the like, or lower-value struck coins. Traditional methods of forgery detection (such as summarized in Jen) are impotent against these fakes, and the problem now extends down to some fairly inexpensive items. Reportedly, dealers will take rare coins to these factories where they are reproduced, with the correct metal composition, patination color and type of soil adhesion proper to that dynasty and type. These techniques are easily applied to coins. Since about 1985 forgers in the PRC have developed new techniques in the service of faking bronze vessels and other antiquities of high value. The current market is overrun with fakes of ancient Chinese knife, spade, cash, and related cast bronze objects. Semans World Coins: Info: Counterfeit Ancient Chinese Coins
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