Unidentified Chinese (?) Coin Found On Beach

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cleanwash New Member United States 1 Posts	Posted 07/02/2014 10:13 am Report this Post to the Staff

Bacchus2 Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2885 Posts	Posted 07/02/2014 10:26 am I don't think this is an actual coin - but probably a good luck charm or similar that was manufactured to look like a cast coin. My Papal States coin collection: https://diadumenian.com/Papal%20Sta...0States.html Medieval coins collection: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0Europe.html Indian Rupee Collection: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0Rupees.html Minor world Silver: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...20coins.html Report this Post to the Staff
Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 07/02/2014 12:24 pm My money's on fantasy coin. That is 100% definitely not Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (the three major producers of cash and cash-like coins) and I'm not recognizing it as any other Asian language either. Another member on here might be able to identify what language it is, if it is indeed a real language. Nice change of pace versus the usual seashells on the beach though! Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16837 Posts	Posted 07/02/2014 5:17 pm The script is I believe Chinese, though written in a very different style than usual, reminiscent of "seal script" found on mediaeval Chinese coins. It's the equivalent of a modern Westerner using blackletter script to write English, and would have been done for the same reason: to make something "look old-fashioned". But this piece appears to have been machine-struck, rather than sand-cast as genuine coins would have been with this script on it. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 07/05/2014 06:09 am Burmese? Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 07/05/2014 1:15 pm this is a Viet Nam (Dai Viet)casted coin 1 phan 1676-1680 KM# 21 There are not a lot of pictures to find from this kind of coins. The writing on this coin is like the one above. But it is difficult to say if it is real (picture from Krause 1601-1700) Report this Post to the Staff
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