View attachment 937225 View attachment 937224 Could someone please help me identify this coin. I think it is Chinese or Japanese. It has similar symbols to other coins but it has markings on the back that I can’t match.
Your coin is from Annam (Vietnam), time of emperor Thanh Thai (1888-1907), denomination on reverse is 10 van.
From my knowledge, your coin is from China. The coin is from the Qing (Ch'ing) dynasty. The coin is from the time of the emperor Puyi which is between the years 1911 and 1967. The coin has three symbols that are read from top to bottom. From left to right and that is how you can tell whom the emperor is at the time and the "mint" so that you can get the location from its whereabouts
@Devin E. Franklin : I think you may be mistaken. Puyi used the nien ho (reign title) Xuan Tong during his reign as emperor of China (1909-1912), as seen on this coin: (During his reign as Japanese puppet-emperor of Manchukuo [Manchuria] from 1932-1945, Puyi used two different reign titles, Da Tong and Sang De, but did not issue any cash-style coinage.) By comparison, here is a coin of the Annamese emperor Thanh Thai from my own collection, which you will notice matches perfectly with the OP coin: You will notice that the reign title, found as the top and bottom characters on the obverse, looks very different from that used by Puyi, even if one can't read the characters the overall shapes just don't match. Also, note that the two characters on the reverse of this coin are in standard Chinese-type script, and not in the Manchurian script usually used for Qing mintmarks, as seen on this coin: In short, I stand by my original assertion that the OP coin is from Annam, reign of Thanh Thai, denomination 10 van, no mintmark on coin.
