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I'm Totally Baffled By These

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 Posted 05/23/2020  7:13 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add okiepb to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I'm attaching some pictures of 5 medals or coins or tokens
I'm really not sure what they are.
I can't read what language is on them.
Since I can't read them, I'm not sure of the obverse/reverse or up/down orientation.
Any help anyone can provide is very appreciated.
I'll put a name in front of each one for reference in any comments.

Animal token?
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 Posted 05/23/2020  7:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silverwolf to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
the first one with an animal, and a cut out portion resembles, a golf ball token, here in canada. meant to slid into the machine in only one way.. and it dispenses golf balls, from a vending type machine..
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First one is an Israel telephone token. The circle of numbers is from an old fashioned telephone dial.
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I agree that the first one is an Israeli Telephone token.

@okiepb, I'd like to recommend that you get the free coinoscope app for your phone. On your last coin posted, this app pointed me at the Satangs of Thailand, such as the one in this link on numista:

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6582.html

Coinoscope correctly nailed #2 also: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces72609.html



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Number 4 (small square hole) is a Chinese cash of Emperor Kao Tsung, AD 1736-1795, mint Boo Yuwan (Board of Works in Beijing)

http://www.calgarycoin.com/referenc...chien%20lung
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Last one is from Thailand
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#1: Israel telephone token, dated in the Hebrew calendar to the year that converts to AD 1966.

#2 and #3: Chinese/Korean "eight trigrams" Taoist charms. Not coins.

#4: China, cash coin of the Qian Long emperor (as noted by Seeker55 above). Despite being over 200 years old, these are incredibly common, being one of the highest mintage coins ever produced on the planet, with billions of coins made each year of his sixty-year reign.

#5: Thailand, 1 satang, dated Year 2471 of the Thai Buddhist calendar (AD 1928). Curiously, that date is not in the Catalogue page for this coin. The edge also looks a little crude compared to the catalogue coin (which shows both the pictures upside-down, by the way). I'm wondering if your coin might be a circulating counterfeit.
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Thank you all for the descriptions of my coins/tokens.
I'll check out the links you all provided.
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