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Hello! My name is Tiffany and I could use some help identifying this coin! It showed up in my stuff and I'll am not sure where it came from.  My husband took it to a local coin collector who not only did not know what it was, she cleaned the blue stuff off of it.  I think I saw on a show you aren't supposed to do that. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks and God Bless!
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 To the CCF Not sure if it is a coin. Can you show a picture of the other side? |
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can you give a weight diameter of coin/medal
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@dt, first welcome to CCF. Second, that is an interesting Chinese token that you have there. Here is more information about this item, taken directly from the coinquest.com website: Quote:
Medal China Journey to the West with Staff, Shovel, Rake, and Bar
One of China's famous stories dating back to the 1500s (Ming dynasty) is Journey to the West, attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. In English-speaking countries, the work is widely known as Monkey, the title of Arthur Waley's popular abridged translation.
Journey to the West is an extended account of the legendary pilgrimage of the Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang who traveled to the 'Western Regions', that is, Central Asia and India, to obtain Buddhist sacred texts.
Main characters in the story include Xuanzang (also referred to as Tang Sanzang), Sun Wukong (the Monkey King), Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing.
During modern times, enterprising sales people have produced nice-looking medals that commemorate the grand story and the characters in it. These are sold in sets to tourists for a few tens of US dollars. The medals contain no silver and are worth about $2 each. Once in a while you can find them online for sale to collectors. https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/co...l?coin=21621"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."
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There's a lot of interesting history attached to this $2 medal .... Fine job there, Spence!  And ... to the CCF, Dragon Tiff |
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My husband took it to a local coin collector who not only did not know what it was, she cleaned the blue stuff off of it. These coins/medals/"fantasy dollars" aren't supposed to be "blue". I'm guessing that it was once housed in a cheap plastic souvenir album page (I have seen sets of these pieces sold in just such pages, such as here in this thread). Cheap plastic and cheap alloys will often have a chemical reaction, even after just a few years in storage (especially if it is humid), forming sticky "green goo". Green goo should indeed be removed, as it is not only ugly and un-natural, but it will continue to eat away at the coin if it is left there. Green goo can be removed with acetone or similar solvents. 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
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