Ornate Plumbing & and an old Chinese Coin RARE!

[broadestpower]

I found these two items in my favorite park on Thursday evening.
I went back yesterday to see someone metal detecting, I may have started something.:two detecting:
In all the years that I've lived in this town I've never seen anyone detecting there.
I'm slightly partial to the plumbing with that being my background. I have never seen
twisted 3/8 tubing or valve and fittings with symbols before. If anyone has additional info:
on the coin or plumbing I'm listening. Thanks!




Cast Coin
Ch'ien Lung Coins 1736-1796
Dynasty: Ch'ing (1644 - 1911 a.d.)
Emperor: Kao Tsung (1736-1795 a.d.)
Reign Title: Ch'ien Lung (1736-1795 a.d.)


Ch'ien
Lung*
Tung
Pao


If your coin has a different reverse from those below then you may
find a match in the Mint marks section.


For more detailed information on Ch'ien Lung coins see
the Ch'ien Lung section of Y.K. Leung's web site.



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*There is a variety of Ch'ien Lung coin known as the "Shan Lung" commemorative issue. It can be identified by the slightly different style bottom (Lung) character -
This coin is rarer than the regular Ch'ien Lung coins.

 

[broadestpower]

n/t

 

[Wetdogg72]

Those are cool! Interesting plumbing thing.. maybe on a radiator type heater??

 

[undertoe]

The pipe is part of an old gas lamp that mounted to the wall like a wall sconce. Probably before electricity.

 

[broadestpower]

I was thinking but I could be off, maybe this is a valve assembly for an old gas lamp.
Part of the valve is missing on one side but very interesting none the less.

 

[broadestpower]

Thanks for the info your post is appreciated!

 

[fongu]

Nice finds.

 

[broadestpower]

Thanks Fongu, have you seen either before?

 

[JB(MS)]

I've found several of the old Chinese coins, so have some of the guys I hunt with, here in northeast MS. Most of the ones we found were found at rural homesites, and some of the guys out west have found a lot of them in the old mining camps. Paul, who posts on Findmall as Old California, found 13 in two hunts in an old mining camp. The one in the photo is the last one I found. It dates to the late 1700's and was found on a lot the city owns here in town.

Link: Paul's Post re Chinese coins

 

[broadestpower]

Thanks, The information and the pictures are great
really appreciate you uploading the text and pictures
good info

 

[fongu]

The only place I've seen a Chinese coin is on these forums and in some coin books. A man who gave me permission to metal detect on his property found some and I hope to go back to the old home place when I'm able to and do a little dirt fishing. They are interesting coins to me.

 

[John-Edmonton]

Nice job dating them too.

 

[broadestpower]

Is your ground allready frozen, is that the delay?
I know that the pictures would be on the forum if
this was not your stumbling block!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

what state are you in? Those chinese cache coins are not rare, or valuable. They are found by the 100's here in Ca, and are common finds in old-town demolition sites (especially old china-town districts). They were often 100+ yrs. old when they arrived here in the USA, with chinese immigrants (who came here to work in the mines, RR's, etc...). So the dates on those coins have nothing to do with when they were lost. They go in "dynasties", not singular years. So the date range can cover 50 or 70 yrs. or whatever. Yours (as you have deduced) is an older type, since that one side has only 2 characters (as opposed to 4 characters on each side). They have no numismatic value, but are fun to find, d/t they let you know you are in a strata where barbers and seated could be present. Cache coins were minted up till the 1910s, I believe.

 

[broadestpower]

Connecticut, the mint markings indicate rarity they say the bottom
symbol on this particular coin is the reason it is more rare. The rarity
in this case means nothing its value is intrinsic, its worth about two dollars
I believe for this area your probably not going to find many. I don't think we
had to many immigrant Chinese minors laboring around these parts.

 

[MrGee]

I've found one chinese coin...not too common here in Wisconsin. It's a bit worn and I never could identify it exactly. I found a website that showed a lot of coins and their vinage, but due the the wear on the coin and the similarity of the symbols I never could decide exactly which coin in was. I love that piece of pipe you found and I agree that it was probably for a wall mounted gas light. I may be out of business for the rest of the season..been really cold the last few days, which means that the ground in starting to freeze now. I've been detecting every month this year so far..yep, including Jan, Feb and March so I gotta get out at least once in December.

MrGee