The two tokens/coins below appear to be the same on both the obverse and reverse. They are silver in color and 25mm in diameter. They appears to have chinese or japanese writing. My best guess was some sort of Japanese gaming token, but haven't been able to find anything like them in google search or coin catalogs. I'd appreciate any help in identifying them. Thanks for the look....Regards, Bill
It looks like you have a couple of Japanese game parlor tokens. The writing on the top token says "21st Century", probably the name of the game parlor. In fact, there is a game parlor in Tokyo called "21世紀" ("21st Century")
Thankyou so much for the information. How in the world do you make the japanese symbols? Is there a translator that would help me identify these names? Again, Thanks so much for your help...Regards, Bill
I'm a long-time resident of Japan and have learned the language, so the daily characters are easy for me to recognize. I don't know of any program that can read Japanese characters from an image, but if you post pictures of what you have here, I or someone else should be able to help you
I'm taking you up on your offer. I've found these 5 coins that I believe are probably Japanese gaming tokens, but not sure. If you could read any information on them and let me know what they say/are, I'd appreciate it. I'd like to include them in my collection, but have to identify them first....Regards, Bill
OK, here you go-- EARLY BIRD-- Japanese writing reads "King" This might be the parlor where the token came from: http://www.p-world.co.jp/hokkaido/earlybird.htm Japanese novelty token-- Japanese writing reads "Lucky" MILLION-- Japanese writing is just "Million" transliterated into the Japanese katakana alphabet
