hey there i set up my account after finding this coin, can someone help me identifing it and maybe even translation of what it says< maybe provide information about the designs shown in it
This is not a coin but a charm, the top one looks like the obverse of coinage but the bottom one is typically for a charm (quite a lot of Chinese charm have a design like this. Will try to find the time to look up if I can find any specifics.
Correct. More specifically, it's an "eight trigrams" charm. The Eight Trigrams are a Taoist symbol; you can see four of the eight on the current South Korean flag.
The four characters on the obverse read (in Chinese) "fu cai tong bao", translating to "good luck and wealth current coin". No actual Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese coin bore this legend, as far as I am aware.
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Quote: The four characters on the obverse read (in Chinese) "fu cai tong bao", translating to "good luck and wealth current coin".
The inscription on this charm actually reads zhao cai jin bao (招財e€˛ĺݶ) which can translate as "money and treasures will be plentiful" or "attracts wealth and treasure".
hey, very sad news, this charm got lost after 3 years of not leaving my neck.. do you have any idea where I can internationally order one like it (zhao cai jin bao on the front, eight trigrams on the back)? thanks for all your help
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