Chinese? Coin? Token? I got no clue.

I purchased a bag with coins from around the world. French, Mexican, Panama and more. This piece was in the group and I have no clue. Don't know if it's right side up . Let me know. Anyway, experts to this type please let me know. Is it a token? Thanks for info.

 

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It's from Japan, a Tempo Tsuho coin, value 100 mon, issued c. 1835-1870. It's a bona fide coin, issued by the Japanese government and everything. Fairly common, not worth a huge amount, but still very cool- how many oval circulating coins do you see? Hope this helps.

 

yes thank you, I collect some foreign but this is different.

 

Big honker too, isn't it?

 

Yes, here is a picture next to a Morgan. It weighs. 772 ounces.

 

And as for the piece being "OVAL", my first thought was it was a token. I've not seen many oval Japenese coins, cool piece and glad someone along the way didn't clean it.

 

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decimals have their place... 0.772 oz?