My Rookie Found This. Help please

[Lowjiber]

So, my buddy, Jimmy, found this last week.

I have no idea. Please help...

[Mudder]

I do believe that your buddy found a Chinese coin. I'm no expert, but I did find these look alikes on the internet.

[Lowjiber]

Thanks Mudder! thumbsup01

Looks like you nailed it.

We were puzzled this morning and I told him we could post it and someone would figure it out. He hasn't joined the forum yet, but this will probably convince him.

Thank You! |:cheering:

[buck57]

Hey Lowjiber, Mudder is correct, that is diffenetlly a Chinese coin. I found one several months ago that looks very simular to this one. I went on Googgle and just typed in coins with square holes, and Chinese coins came right up. I went on a site, which a coin dealer had up in Canada and he verified the date of my coin between 1736-1795. You go looking on some site, and there are these Chinese coins with hundreds of combos of symbols on them, which all have a certain name. Once I located mine, I e-mailed the dealer just to confirm. Here is a pic of my coin, then the one I found on Google. The coin dealer told me that the one I found is only worth a couple of dollars, since they supposely made 6,000,000,000 of them. Oh well, pretty cool find. Tell Jimmy congrats....

http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t471/buck1957/Kemper%20Finds%202012/P7050086.jpg

http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t471/buck1957/Kemper%20Finds%202012/EmperorKaoTsung.jpg

[Lowjiber]

Wow! I won't be able to keep him outta that place now. lol

Maybe I'll tell him we're going back on Wednesday and I'll sneak in there on Tuesday. >8)

[SeabeeRon]

Hey John, I found a couple of those during that Haunted House dig at the Boardwalk! Take care buddy! :cool:

[Lowjiber]

Hey Ron!

If you found them in the Haunted House dig, they might date back to the 1920's. You agree?

[SeabeeRon]

Hey Ron!

If you found them in the Haunted House dig, they might date back to the 1920's. You agree?


At least that far back buddy! :yes:

[OxShoeDrew]

Mine looked similar to your's and turned out to be from an 18th century dynasty. I forget.... but each character tells when, where the coin was made and how much it is worth.....you can check into it. |:cheering:

[Lowjiber]

Mine looked similar to your's and turned out to be from an 18th century dynasty. I forget.... but each character tells when, where the coin was made and how much it is worth.....you can check into it. |:cheering:

We'll look into it...take it to the bank.

He was/is sure excited, largely because that's the first really cool thing he's found.

Many thanks to everyone who chimed in on this one!

[Sal66]

The only thing I Know about these coins is why they have a square hole. So the can string them together .

[Lowjiber]

Not to bump this thread, but I stumbled across a website that identifies Chinese coins of this type.

http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china8.htm#yung%20cheng