Mint year of Chinese coin [solved]

Hi there,

Can anyone tell me what year this coin was minted? It looks like it's this coin: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12423.html but I can't figure out the year.



Also, it looks like people sell this coin at a bit of a high price online, and although my coin looks very worn off, it's still very shiny and IMO in very good condition, which makes me wonder if it's even real. I found it in a lot that I don't suppose had anything valuable in it, so...

Until recently, I only collected euro coins, and I'm still very new to anything not euro.

Thanks for your help.

Hello and welcome!

Your coin has the cyclical date of "丑辛", which indicates 1901 in the Western calendar; however this is not indicated in the 1901 date line.

However I can say with absolute certainty your coin is a modern counterfeit.

Thank you for the quick reply, CassTaylor.

No worries, I wasn't trying to find something valuable, so I'm not disappointed or something. I don't collect coins for their value and spotted the ebay suggestions at the bottom of the coin's site just by chance. When I saw the price those coins sell for, I already suspected that my coin wasn't genuine. I would have been very surprised if it had been. Just out of curiosity, how can you tell it's not real? What's the difference?

The only pity is that the coin is pretty and I would have liked it in my collection. Even though to me collecting coins isn't about the coins' values, I don't want fakes in my collection though. So, that's one coin less...

Anyway, thanks a lot again.

well，"辛丑"(right to left)means 1901

the value is only 2 or 3 us$
It looks not even silver:
http://www.silvercoins.com/fake-silver-coins-14-ways-to-spot-counterfeits/