It is not genuine, I'm afraid. It's a replica of a very scarce Chinese pattern coin, the "dragon tael" from Kwangtung Province. Most provinces of China never issued taels for circulation. See This example of a fake on zeno.ru.
Several other people have posted these on the forum before. See this thread and this thread.
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Thanks for the help guys. And the welcome notes. It's so unfortunate that it's a fake. I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume fakes aren't really worth anything?
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