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numismatist6 Valued Member United States 360 Posts	Posted 11/09/2024 2:33 pm Another unknown. This is brass measures 24.0 mm, weighs 5.61 gams . Obverse has a snake, the date 1989, and a couple of characters that may be an oriental number. Thar reverse has, what I think, is a Chinese Zodiac. Ant ideas? Thanks Report this Post to the Staff

Spence Moderator United States 34393 Posts	Posted 11/09/2024 3:36 pm @num, yes looks like a Zodiac-themed token from 1989, which was a year of the snake. Here is a link for a different year (1984, year of the rat), but with the same rev: https://tw.bid.yahoo.com/item/10146...guccounter=1 I can't tell if it is Chinese or Taiwanese. "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
numismatist6 Valued Member United States 360 Posts	Posted 11/10/2024 2:21 pm found I had several more different years. Seems to be China issued, Thanks Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16805 Posts	Posted 11/10/2024 4:40 pm Quote: Thar reverse has, what I think, is a Chinese Zodiac. Though often called that, these two circles of characters depict the "10 heavenly stems and 12 earthly branches" which, when combined in a complicated pattern, form the sixty-year cyclical Chinese Calendar. The "12 Earthly branches" are associated with, though not directly named after, the 12 animals commonly referenced as the "Chinese Zodiac". 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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