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Fish Coin Or Pendant?

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 Posted 03/29/2024  1:58 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Rmassey210 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello,

I am not sure if this could be old money or just some kind of pendant. Does anyone have any ideas on this one? It is 1.5" length, 1" width, and 1/4" thick. Weight is 1.285 oz. Thank you!

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Can you make out the initials on the back?
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@rma, I don't believe that this is money, but rather a pendant or perhaps a charm. My go-to website for Chinese charms is primaltrek, and here is a link to their page on fish charms:

https://primaltrek.com/fish.html

Yours is not close to either of those, and coupled with the hole in the tail, I suspect you have a pendant. The impressed mark on the reverse is likely going to be one or two Chinese characters.
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Looks like a fishing weight to me.
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Thanks, Spence. That really helps. Any ballpark idea how old this may be?
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Sorry but I have zero idea on age. It isn't a coin though--@nfine's guess of it being a fishing sinker is as good of an idea as any. I'm going to move this thread over to the exonumia section though.
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