I recently came across these has anyone seen anything like it or can please point me in the right direction.
I too am no help. Sorry. I know that there are members here that read Chinese, so you may at least get the inscriptions on the coins. Wait for others to respond. Welcome to CT BTW.
There are a lot of other coins from Columbia and Philippines but these by far were most interesting. They came into my possession when my wife’s father passed he was obsessed with leper coinage.
I collect leper coinage and currency. I'm not aware of Chinese leper coinage, but it wouldn't surprise me if some exists. They don't appear to be a struck issue, more like disks that have had individual characters applied. I have a book leprersarium numismatics and I don't believe it mentions anything from China.
China does have "leprosy villages," but I can't find any reference to one called "Wandu" or anything similar.
Well China definitely had villages! Good luck with them! http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1004106/scarred-lives-the-lasting-hurt-of-chinas-leprosy-villages
I'm generally interested in Leper coinage and wanted to procrastinate so I just spent way too much time trying to figure this out. I didn't manage to answer anything but did get somewhere. First, while I don't speak chinese the first line on each coin is "Hospital" (医院) and the last line is "Certificate of Exchange" (兑换証). Middle lines vary and I'm getting different results out of the translator I used, but pretty sure it's the denomination. There was a set of leper colony money issued in China in the 1980s. See here for what's supposedly the only know copy. So maybe it was something from there but earlier?: https://coins.ha.com/itm/china/peop...sy-tokens-nd-ca-1980-s-total-5/a/3032-24475.s Another option could be that it wasn't from China at all, instead it was an issue from one of the Malaysian colonies. For example, apparently the Sungei Buloh Settlement issued some gambling tokens and the paper money they had did have Chinese on it. There were a lot of Chinese immigrants in certain areas there so that could fit.(https://archive.org/stream/NIB2007JanVol42No01/NIB2007JanVol42No01_djvu.txt) As others have mentioned the most likely option though is somewhere unknown in China. I didn't find anything specific to a Leper Colony, but Wandu is the name of a historic site in Ji'an, so maybe there was a hospital nearby that used the name. I couldn't find one but did find this medical article that lists the colony populations by province. If you really want to dig, perhaps the author would have a list of the facilities nearby the historic site?: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6e41/50234163a1566227b2f554f4b3947b1e6c2c.pdf
thanks for the info we were left a lot of coins from leper colonies in Philippines, Columbia, Panama and some other countries these just stood out and couldn’t find any info. May have to find a Chinese coinage specialist from China.
