Questions Thread

[Dong Zhou]

I have been seeing the term cis woman around more and more recently. What is a cis woman?

[SunXia]

A Cisgender woman is a woman who was born female. That is, was not born male and to later identify as a female, which is Transgender.

[Adam]

Soooooooo, I discovered this whilst going through my great grandfather's coin collection:




Full size link: http://imageshack.com/a/img907/3898/SgpXev.jpg
http://imageshack.com/a/img633/3253/JgfoM6.jpg

Not much to go on to Google the thing and none of the results I've looked at for "Siam coin" have looked even remotely similar and there's no date to go on...any help would be appreciated as I have a ton of coins to go through and don't want to spend an eternity on this one alone.

Edit: Found another with Ceylon instead of Siam.

[TigerTally]

That seems to be a 10-cent coin of the early New Taiwan Dollar. It no longer exists under the current system. The head on it is Sun Yat-sen. 民國四十四年 , 臺灣省 , and 臺角 are respectively "Minguo 44" (1955), "Taiwan Province", and "1 jiao" ( = 1/10 dollar = 10 cents) in traditional Chinese. Dunno why is it connected with Siam or Ceylon though.

You can compare it with the pictures on these websites:

http://tw.taobao.com/item/45062294050.htm
http://tw.taobao.com/item/42412778733.htm
http://auction.zhuokearts.com/art/27184261.shtml

[Adam]

Great, thanks.

I think they were marked as Siam and Ceylon just because that's where they were obtained/found...most of the Great Britain currency I found in the collection was listed more specifically than was necessary (IE: England, Scotland etc. and a few were clearly from completely different places than the labels said they were from.