Welcome to the
forum.
You seem to have gathered all the main modern books on
Chinese cash. There are two more scholarly works on
Chinese numismatics:
A Monetary
History of
China, by
Peng Xinwei (translated by Edward H.
Kaplan of the Center for East Asian Studies in 1994).
Les monnaies de la Chine ancienne, by François
Thierry. (If you read
French.)
Unfortunately, neither these two,
nor the others you listed, really
help with the issue of authentification. I frankly don't know any book or article that covers this - with the exception of articles on the metallic composition of
Chinese cash. However those are useless for authentification unless you happen to have an X-ray fluorescence machine in your basement.
The best idea is to look at images of genuine and
fake examples. There are some in the
fakes section of the
forum. I believe that there are
still some websites dedicated to this subject. And
zeno.ru can't be beat for the sheer number of images of cash in general and it has a
fakes section for each dynastic period.
It is also important to recognize that the
field is quite complicated. In addition to genuine official
Chinese cash and modern
fakes, there are other categories including ancient (
aka contemporary) copies from
China, and ancient copies from other places like
Japan,
Vietnam and Indonesia - some of which are copies of other copies. So you can have cash that are under-sized, under-weight or with odd calligraphy that are
still genuinely ancient.
Generally, in my experience,
fakes of common low value cash do exist but can be fairly easy to detect with a little experience. For the rarer stuff I would fall back on the
standard "rules" - know and trust the dealer, if it is too
good to be true it is, there are no "steals" out there, etc.
SC
