Help Identifying Copper Coin With Square Hole

Its slyle resebles a chinese anciant because of the four characters surounding the square hole on the obverse, and the two anamals, which usualy represent ying and yang, on the reverse. it was most likely minted between 1890 and 1940, but it could be older, and somewhat newer. it also mght be japanese, which tryed to copy the chinese as much as possible in the 1700's and before, and therefore resulted in the similarity between the two cultures. look at this comparison between your coin and a chinese coin.

First, welcome to the forum! It's a great forum, and the members are very helpful.

I have a similar coin in my foreign collection, so will join you in waiting for an answer to your question.

It may well have been made in Malaysia, but it's not an official coin, from Malaysia, China or anywhere else. The lettering is similar in style to ancient and mediaeval Chinese "seal script", but the coin itself is too "modern" - the perfect roundness of the rim indicates to me a machine-struck piece, whereas ancient Chinese cash coins were always cast; only a few "struck cash" were made in the early 1900's, by which time "seal script" was long out of fashion. Here is a "seal script" cash coin, from the Yuan Feng period of Song dynasty emperor Shen Zong (1078-1086 AD, Jen#251):

Chinese cash coins rarely had pictures of any sort on them; lettering only was the rule.

I generally concur with FYI and say it's a 19th or 20th century amulet or charm, from somewhere in east Asia. I'm not certain, but the first picture (with the writing) might be upside down. An expert in Chinese script might tell you what the legend is trying to say, though perhaps fengk is right and it's just "Chinese-looking" gibberish, designed to trick up gullible foreigners.