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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 154652, member: 669&quot;]In the first place it&#039;s Japanese, not Chinese.</p><p><br /></p><p>The legend is correctly oriented in your picture, and reads (top to bottom, right to left) &quot;jun-gi tsu-ho&quot;.&nbsp; &quot;Tsuho&quot; roughly translates as &quot;currency&quot;.&nbsp; I&#039;m not familiar with &quot;jun-gi&quot;, but on many cast copper/bronze Japanese cash coins the legend is the era name followed by &quot;tsuho&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other side of your coin does not match anything in my reference books, and my suspicion is that you have a Japanese temple token, but <img src="http://boards.collectors-society.com/images//graemlins/confused-smiley-013.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>BTW there are often multiple readings of the same Kanji character, so what I have rendered as jun-gi may have a completely different sound.&nbsp; Sorry I can&#039;t be of more help.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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