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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 7984047, member: 102103&quot;]I guess I thought the little triangular hole was a casting defect.&nbsp; Sorry I misunderstood you earlier.&nbsp; I do have several Asian coins with similar extra holes, though not as big as that one.&nbsp; Here&#039;s one example (Yuan You cash 1086-1093)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1385477[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The original coin says:</p><p>景盛　通寶</p><p>I don&#039;t speak Vietnamese at all, I only know (some) Japanese and Chinese.</p><p>景盛 is probably the Era name of Emperor Cảnh Thịnh (from MilesofWho&#039;s link).</p><p>In Chinese it might read <a href="https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&amp;wdrst=1&amp;wdqb=景盛" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&amp;wdrst=1&amp;wdqb=景盛" rel="nofollow">Jing3 Sheng4</a> and mean approximately &quot;circumstances flourish&quot;.&nbsp; But you can&#039;t usually read names literally from their component characters.&nbsp; 通寶 just means ~&quot;circulating treasure&quot; and is the general phrase on many copper coins from China/Japan/Vietnam/Korea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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