Chinese Coin:huh:

[freemindstuck]

Hi, my friend dug this coin up. And neither of us being experts in foreign money, we were not able to identify it. Does anybody know what it is? How old it is? What is it worth? Translation of the characters?

Thanks in advance

 

[del]

yes its a Chinese cash coin and they could be anywhere from the 1600's to pretty modern , heres a website that helps with the id'ing by the symbols .

http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china8.htm#images%20of%20titles

 

[Full Metal Digger]

Definitely Chinese. Translation says Chucky Cheese! eace:

 

[freemindstuck]

yes its a Chinese cash coin and they could be anywhere from the 1600's to pretty modern , heres a website that helps with the id'ing by the symbols .

http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china8.htm#images%20of%20titles

Thanks Del,
I was able to easily look it up via the website you provided.
Emperor HSUAN TSUNG
AD 1821-1850
Reign title: TAO-KUANG, AD 1821-1850
&quot:beerbuddy:OO CIOWAN (Board of Revenue mint). The Manchu mint name translates to Pao-Ch'uan, or The Fountain head of the Currency.
Not worth very much, but still very cool and you have to wonder how it made it's way all the from China to Iowa.

Adrian

 

[POKIE73]

a lot of us have found them i think they were brought over with all the chinese when they worked the railroads dennis congrats they are a neat find dennis |:cheering: |:cheering:

 

[Sal66]

Pokie, your exactly right. I was at my son's Karate class a long time ago when he was a Grasshopper and this guy in front of me had a whole box of them. He also had a book just on Chinese Coins . They all looked like that with the square center. I'm guessing it's hard to ID them as he spent awhile looking up just one coin at a time and the were even marked. I didn't see all the dates but some were from the 1800's.

 

[Lowjiber]

a lot of us have found them i think they were brought over with all the chinese when they worked the railroads dennis congrats they are a neat find dennis |:cheering: |:cheering:

Here in Vegas they're pretty rare, but my buddy found one in a local park... not too deep either. The only thing we could figure was it arrived there with the topsoil delivered from the area of the railroad.

 

[z118]

I think many of them that are found are really modern replicas made for I Ching divination. Google I Ching coins and you can see what I mean.