Unidentified Coin...please Help | Chinese Fantasy Dollar

G'day,
the writing is Chinese;
the portrait is Dr Sun Yat Sen (d.1925).
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat_Sen

Dr Sun is embraced as "the Father of Modern China" by both the Nationalists (Taiwan) and Communists (Beijing), so he doesn't help pin down which might be a source.

I'm not familiar with Chinese coins, except from the fairly modern PRC-era, and this doesn't look like any of them.

I suspect it's a souvenir or memorial token. There are sveral sites in China & Taiwan devoted to the memory of Dr Sun. The building on the reverse might be a clue, but I don't recognize that.

... and welcome to the CCF.

Peter in Oz

This is another unofficial "fantasy dollar" originating from China. At least, it's claiming to be a 1 yuan coin (the denomination is indicated by the two large characters on either side of the portrait) but there's no official coinage looking like this from China. Here's a similar one posted on CCF last year, with links to sites elsewhere.

That, plus the general fuzziness of the design, tells me it's of the class of reproduction and fantasy "dollars" made by the millions for sale to tourists in China and exported overseas.