Yeah, you slide it onto a chopstick so it doesn't slip through your fingers! Good thing we have members like @furryfrog02 to give you the real story!
Almost every time I see coins like this (or pics of them) I get dizzy! There are literally thousands of almost alike cash coins...minted over the last 4 or 5 hundred years...it's a blooming' wonder anyone can make sense of them. That thing may be one-in-a-million; more likely one of tens of millions. Nice & clean, though...at least easier to read than most of them Good luck! wlw
Chinese cash coin from the peking board of revenue, it is not one of the most recent ones but I don't have time right now to determine which emperor it is. I will try to get to it tomorrow if no one else comes up with it.
Furry, thank you so much for the link. It made me dig out the old Chinese coins that my mother's aunt and uncle, who were missionaries and worked in China, gave to her. I believe they were in China in the early 1900s. I identified 8 of the cast coins, with one being too far gone to read the characters, and one machine struck.
