Help With Identifity Country And Date

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peaches2165 Valued Member United States 65 Posts	Posted 05/21/2016 7:21 pm Hi, Can any tell me what country and year this coin is from. Thanks, Peaches Report this Post to the Staff

peaches2165 Valued Member United States 65 Posts	Posted 05/21/2016 7:28 pm Here is the other side Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34427 Posts	Posted 05/21/2016 8:36 pm Sorry peaches2165, but I'm having trouble finding this coin. On the obv, the two characters on the left and right are tong bao, but I cannot find a Chinese emperor with the top and bottom characters on this coin. Oddly, the bottom character reminds me of shui ("water"). There are others here who hopefully can step up and be more helpful. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 05/21/2016 9:39 pm It's Japanese. The same design was used from about 1680-1860 if I recall. The country ran critically low on copper deposits in ca. 1700, so these coins were increasingly debased with iron until the borders were re-opened in the 1860s, and these coins were retired in 1870. You can narrow these coins down very specifically based on the calligraphy style, but the simplest test is to see if it sticks to a magnet. Edited by Finn235 05/21/2016 9:39 pm Report this Post to the Staff
peaches2165 Valued Member United States 65 Posts	Posted 05/22/2016 07:52 am Hi, Thanks everyone for the help. the coin does not stick to a magnet. Peaches Report this Post to the Staff
arok Valued Member Canada 53 Posts	Posted 05/24/2016 11:29 am At first look it seemed to me that the legs of Ho (left char) touch each other on the top. This would make it Ko-Kanei Tsuho, produced from 1626 till 1668. However the quality of the coin / image doesn't allow me to be positive about this. Report this Post to the Staff
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