Unidentified Asian Coin (Chinese?) | Coin-Like Charm

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XavierOfGreen Pillar of the Community United States 2589 Posts	Posted 02/19/2010 10:02 pm My grandfather had served in Manchuria, Japan, Korea, and several pacific islands during world war two and the occupation afterwords. Throughout his travels he acquired a small hoard of foreign coins which I am now attempting to identify. This one appears to be the oldest of the lot, but I have no idea as to its identification. The only thing that I can appear to discern is that the characters appear to be Chinese, though in this I might even be mistaken. If anyone can identify what this thing is and might be worth id greatly appreciate it. Moved to Exonumia forum - Sap Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16810 Posts	Posted 02/19/2010 11:11 pm This one isn't a coin - it's a coin-like charm of some kind. Chinese cash coins almost always had only four characters on one side, and rarely more than three on the other. Never eight and ten. I believe the side with eight characters depicts the Eight Natures of Taoism. 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
svslav Pillar of the Community United States 2605 Posts	Posted 02/19/2010 11:12 pm This doesn't look like a real coin to me: too many characters. I believe it's either a fantasy piece or some kind of a token. But let's wait for a second opinion ... (After seeing Sap's input) There you go! Edited by svslav 02/19/2010 11:15 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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