Can Anyone Help Me Figure Out What This Is. I "think" Its A Coin (Id: Chinese Tourist Souvenir)

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Apathetic New Member Canada 1 Posts	Posted 06/03/2021 10:52 pm think this is a coin spent hours looking online for both coins and metals could just be a decoration I'm not really sure. any help would be great just to add something I WAS told it was a coin. Edited by Apathetic 06/03/2021 11:16 pm Report this Post to the Staff

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Spence Moderator United States 34396 Posts	Posted 06/04/2021 06:45 am @apa, first welcome to CCF. Second, have you looked on primaltrek yet? That is my go-to website for Chinese charms. I know you have been told it is a charm, and it certainly looks like a cast Chinese Cash, but the turtle and other animals on the rev make me think it is instead a charm. "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
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Sap Moderator Australia 16808 Posts	Posted 06/06/2021 6:37 pm It isn't a coin, it's a charm. Genuine "Chinese cash style" coins almost never have pictures or images on them, and the one exception has a horse, not a turtle. It isn't old, either - it appears to be machine-struck, rather than sand-cast as cash coins traditionally were. The inscription on the obverse, read in the traditional up-down-right-left order, is "Ji Xiang Ru Yi" , literally "good auspiciousness comparison-with ideas" but more poetically translated as "May your good fortune be according to your wishes" or even more poetically, "May all Your dreams come true". The little holes drilled into the rim at top and bottom are for mounting the coin onto a wall or some kind of Feng Shui decorative piece. I haven't found an exact match on zeno.ru, but I did find several examples of Ji Xiang Ru Yi charms - it was a popular saying back in the Ming and Qing Imperial eras - including this item with the exact same inscription, style of writing, machine-struck appearance and similar top-and-bottom drilled holes. The piece is described as a "modern tourist souvenir". 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
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Can Anyone Help Me Figure Out What This Is. I "Think" Its A Coin (Id: Chinese Tourist Souvenir)