October Transacted Prices for Silver Panda

The spike in precious metal prices last month have lured many sellers to part with their collections. With Gold hitting record high at US$1,066.00 on 13 Oct 09 as Silver struggle to pass US$18, it seems that either buyers are waiting out or sellers are out of stock. 1989 & 1990 are recovering with a 1992 Large Date that was sold extremely cheap. It would be good to grab a few post-2000 now to be released later as they rise.

But once again, Chinese fake coin makers are making collecting Chinese coins a dangerous game. Unscrupulous sellers continue to sell fake coins with real coin photographs and also the fake coins are made with such accuracy that one collector showed me photograph of a fake 2000 Mirror weighing 30.9g. I just didn't get a chance to measure the thickness of the coin. Somewhere has to give in physics.

In the coming months, I should have more time to post a fake 2003 that was so well struck that only the weight could tell the difference. Also, I would be adding some Chinese Fan Shaped Lunar Coins to this blog as well as the first of the Chinese Historical Figure Series of the Terra-cotta Armies. Stay tuned!

1989 55.35

1990L - 1990S 93.89

1991L 122.43 1991S -

1992L 83.89 1992S 120.96

1993L - 1993S -

1994L - 1994S -

1995L - 1995S 86.01

1996L - 1996S -

1997L - 1997S -

1998L - 1998S 90.44

1999LP - 1999S - 1999LS -

2000F 127.68 2000M 334.00

2001 40.82 2001D 49.04

2002 39.60

2003 56.26

2004 38.36

2005 40.27

2006 38.66

2007 39.03

2008 35.49

2009 36.87