Help Identifing (Pachinko Coin)

The top part says Ichiroku, which means 1 6. The center character means gold. The bottom part the left two characters are also 1 6. Hope this helps!

"Ichiroku" (16) refers to a Japanese company by the name of "Ichiroku Shoji Group", shown at the bottom of your piece as 一å.­å•†äº‹, as can be seen at this Japanese website.

Gary

Same image on both sides? Probably pachinko, as mds308 speculates.

Pachinko is a peculiarly Japanese form of entertainment. Think of a pachinko machine as kind of a cross between a pinball machine, and a one-armed-bandit slot machine.

In a country where most forms of gambling are still either illegal or strictly regulated, pachinko parlours exploit a loophole to allow ordinary people to gamble, because under the law, pachnko is an "amusement", not a game of chance. It is illegal to play pachinko directly for money prizes. So, next door to or across the street from the pachinko parlour, you will always find a "collectables shop" (usually owned by the same people who own the pachinko parlour) that specializes in buying and selling pachinko tokens, and pachinko balls. You can buy the tokens, and the pachinko balls, in the pachinko parlour as you might expect to. But if you actually manage to "win", you cannot redeem them back for cash on-site; you have to take your winnings back out of the pachinko parlour and to the ball store, where you can exchange them back into cash.

Many pachinko parlours have been infiltrated by the Yakuza and other criminal gangs, though this can rarely be proven in court.