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Need Help Identifying | Chinese Eight Trigrams Charm

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Looking through some coins I got from my grandfather years ago and cannot find anything about this one. Any help is appreciated.

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Not a coin, but some kind of charm probably used with the I-Ching.
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The symbols made up of short and long lines that circle the reverse are I-Ching hexagrams. This is probably some kind of charm or token.
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Correct, it's a Chinese charm, with the eight trigrams on one side and the twelve "Chinese zodiac" animals on the other. Example on zeno.ru.
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Thanks for the info, I couldn't find a thing about this
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I thoiught at first, it was an old chinese "Cash" coin, that were used40-50 years ago, at least.
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