Help Needed Identifying Chinese Token, Please! Unlike Any I've Seen Around!

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scubagirlwonder New Member United States 1 Posts	Posted 07/20/2021 7:20 pm Hi Everybody! I have a couple of these "coins" that I suspect are some sort of Chinese arcade tokens, but I am unable to find other examples of them online. Anybody have experience with these? Report this Post to the Staff

John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 07/20/2021 7:43 pm Report this Post to the Staff
dar76124 Valued Member United States 395 Posts	Posted 07/20/2021 9:37 pm This commemorates the year of the Dragon. The most recent year of the dragon was 1988 so this is probably from then. Report this Post to the Staff
macmercury Pillar of the Community United States 5822 Posts	Posted 07/20/2021 10:29 pm The bottom picture reads "China coining company". The middle symbol is the word dragon. I'm unsure if it made for the celebration for the year of the dragon. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16806 Posts	Posted 07/20/2021 10:54 pm Quote: The most recent year of the dragon was 1988 so this is probably from then. Um, no. The Chinese zodiacal calendar is a 12 year cycle. Previous dragon years were 1988, 2000, and 2012. Perhaps struck in one of those years, perhaps it was stuck merely int he hope that someone born in a Dragon year would buy one of their medals. They probably made one for each zodiac-animal, so everybody could buy one. Privately-struck medals like this are commonplace in mainland China, as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan. There's no hope of cataloguing or tracking them all. 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
dar76124 Valued Member United States 395 Posts	Posted 07/21/2021 07:06 am According to my wife who is Chinese, the two characters above the dragons indicate this is not for a typical Dragon year but for a special year that comes only every 60 years 1988, 1928, 1868 ... Report this Post to the Staff
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