Chinese(?) coins

by Fuckinbetterthanyou

Hello everyone,
I've got these two (what I assume are) chinese rusty coins and I've always been interested to get to know something more about them. I am possitive they are just replicas of various coins from who know what century but I'd still love to learn more about them.
Unfortunately, they are not in the best shape, so I couldn't take a proper photo. However, I sketched down how they look like;
https://imgur.com/a/JQmuBGR
(*red coloured may not be accurate because they are very hard to see at this point but I think they are both the same.)

Thank you in advance for your answers!

keyilan

Based on your drawing the first one is from the period of the Daoguang 道光 Emperor, the 8th Qing emperor who ruled from 1820 to 1850. The second is from the reign of the Shunzhi 順治 Emperor, who was the third Qing emperor, ruling from 1644 to 1661. The side with Chinese characters just says the name of the empepror and that it's money (通寶).

The other side is written in Manchu and says "Ministry of Revenue" on both coins. That's the minting authority, which in this case was in the province of Chihli, which no longer exists today as a modern administrative division. Basically Beijing, though.

Chances are these are not authentic. A lot of these are made as tourist trinkets and you can get them for literal pennies. If they look to be very similar in condition and material, then it's almost certain that they are knock-offs, since if they were authentic you'd expect the 200 years differnce of when they would have been minted (if authentic) to leave different patterns of ware. Even if they are authentic, the Daoguang one isn't going to make you rich. Neither is the Shunzhi though it might arguably be worth more. You'd obviously need them authenticated by a collector to really know, though.

Also your red is pretty darn accurate. Well done!