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Please Help ID These Asian Coins

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 Posted 03/25/2014  11:22 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add puzzled to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi, I need help. I found these coins can anyone ID them?
Also are they worth anything? From what I've seen on the internet, there seem to be tons of these floating around.

There are 3 coins the big one is by itself and measures about 2.75" across.

The other 2 together are smaller measuring about 1.75" across. Someone thought enough of them to frame them. The back of the frame is secured by nails so it looks like it may have been purchased from a shop? I couldn't easily remove the back of the frame so I could only take pics of what is seen from the front. For all I know the backs of the coins may be blank.

Any details on them, age, metal content, country of origin, value, etc. would be appreciated.

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THANKS!

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 Posted 03/26/2014  08:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hello and welcome.

I wish we had better news for you in answer to your very first post on the forum, but none of these items are genuinely old coins, I'm afraid. These "large cash coins" are amulets, made for the purpose of nailing to houses as good luck charms. Vietnam is the most common origin for them, though they are not unknown in other East Asian countries too. As for the age of these fantasies/replicas, I strongly doubt they are older than the mid-1900s.

The design of the top picture is taken from an old Vietnamese coin from the 1500s. The script, however, is not the same as that used on genuine Dai Chinh coins.

The coin at bottom left is a design copied from a Chinese cash from the reign of the Shun Zhi emperor, mid-1600s.

As for the one at bottom right, very few genuine Chinese or Vietnamese cash coins have animals depicted on them. So this one, too, is some kind of fantasy charm.
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 Posted 03/26/2014  10:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add puzzled to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you!

Hey, I'm just really glad you answered my question in such detail I learned something. Even though they may not be worth anything they are cool looking.

I kind of thought they might be souvenir type things someone bought in a shop. Your knowledge is amazing.

Thanks again!
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