Hi. Back in 1958 I was working on a tanker carrying gasoline and oil to China. It was unloaded in the city of Whampoa, a suburb of the old Kanton. That's where I got the coins. Back then everyone was wearing the same clothes, men and women alike. The colour was gray, brown or dark green. Next time I visited china was 50 years later. 2009. What a shock-- I met a modern society with cars, cabs, city lights and skyscrapers of very impressive architecture, Beijing made Chicago, New York or L.A look "out of date". It was just a totally, shockingly, different country. China as I remembered it was gone and a new, modern country had risen from the ashes. Just wish I had known back then that I should have filled my trunk with coins!.