As best I can tell from the images, your coin is a standard 5 fun coin minted in 1895. Korean coins at the time used both Chinese characters and...
The coin is upside-down so please rotate it 180 degrees to be oriented correctly. The inscription reads li yong tong bao (利用通宝) and it is the...
The Chinese inscription on the obverse side (top image) reads xian yi tong bao (咸宜通宝). This inscription was not used on Chinese coins but on...
It's Chinese but not from Taiwan. It is a five fen ("5 cent" 伍分) note issued by the Hainan Bank (hainan yinhang 海南银行) in 1949 (38th Year of the...
From the images provided it is almost impossible to be certain but I'm pretty sure it is a "Chinese Coin Tree" as opposed to a "Japanese Money...
The inscription on the obverse side is de he tong bao (德和通宝) which means it is a coin of "virtue and harmony". The inscription on the reverse is...
The coin in the hand is one in a series of coins commemorating the "Twelve Emperors of the Qing Dynasty". Your coin commemorates the Yongzheng...
The coin is indeed interesting even though it is not much scarcer than the other varieties. According to the authoritative Chinese reference...
This "amulet" is actually a modern fantasy piece that is based on a Ming Dynasty coin and a Song Dynasty "horse coin". The inscription on the...
It is a souvenir of China's Terracotta Army displaying a chariot driver similar to this or this. The reverse side displays two very stylized...
It is a reproduction of a very famous and extremely rare Chinese coin. Please see my article on the "1910 Chinese Yunnan Spring Dollar". Gary
The book was written by "Ding" but it is not the one translated by Fisher. Fisher translated the book usually referred to in the Western world as...
The characters at the bottom are 一六商事 which may refer to this Japanese company or this one. Gary
It only seems backwards because you are accustomed to reading modern Korean which is written left-to-right. Koreans living at the time these...
It's actually the Board of Works mint. Gary
It is a Chinese charm. The inscription reads xuantian shangdi (玄天上帝) which translates as the "God of the Profound Heavens". Gary
The inscription is jia qing tong bao 嘉庆通宝 which means it was cast during the reign of Emperor Ren Zong of the Qing Dynasty. A similar coin may be...
The inscription at the bottom of the second image translates as "Commemorating the official visit to China of the Emperor and Empress". The...
The Chinese to the left of the portrait identifies the goddess as "Mazu". The Chinese inscription at the top of the reverse side translates as...
The 5 yuan coin is actually dated the 78th year (not 79th) of the Republic of China which would be the year 1989. Gary
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