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jasondeg Valued Member Canada 100 Posts	Posted 01/03/2008 12:49 am Hi, I received this from my family and I don't know anything about it. I don't know where it comes from, if it's a coin, medallion or if it's nothing. If anyone has any info. I would appreciate it. Thanks. Image: unknown1.jpg 49.98 KB Image: unknown2.jpg 50.59 KB Report this Post to the Staff

justabeginner Pillar of the Community Australia 1014 Posts	Posted 01/03/2008 12:56 am It should be a Chinese/Japanese something. I'm not sure if its a coin or anything, but pardon me, I'm still new. Definitely of asian origin though. Are you at 50 yet? :P Report this Post to the Staff
jasondeg Valued Member Canada 100 Posts	Posted 01/03/2008 01:25 am Getting there justabeginner, slowly but surely! but it will have to wait until tomorrow it's 2:20 am here! gotta go to bed. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16806 Posts	Posted 01/03/2008 01:29 am It's a "fantasy", a charm coin made to look similar to a genuine, old Chinese or Vietnamese cash coin. Real cash coins rarely included pictorial elements like those two dragons. The telltale thing to look at here are the regularly spaced "dots" in the background of the side with the four characters. These are supposed to resemble the rough, sandy background of a genuinely cast coin. But genuine cash coins don't look "spotty" like that. 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
justabeginner Pillar of the Community Australia 1014 Posts	Posted 01/03/2008 01:29 am haha... see you in 8 hours time? :P BTW a lot of counterfeits are produced for those types of coins. Back in my old home, random people would come up and sell them, saying they were real. Packaging was so fake though... Report this Post to the Staff
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