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Message:: [QUOTE="Lynne, post: 72871, member: 4236"]My friend Lin is from China, and taking college studies in Canada. We met last year, and became fast friends, and when she went back to China for the summer she promised to bring me back some coins, as she knew about my hobby. I only expected maybe some of her change, but she did more than that. She brought me back many coins from China, Korea, and Hong Kong. All regular currency of course. Except these really old coins. She says they're from China, and that they're each from a different time period. One one side of the coins is Chinese characters, four of them. She says two of the characters is the name of the king (emperor?!) or that time. The other side has a few other characters. But the odd thing about them is that they have square holes in the middle of them. I know nothing of Chinese coins, or really old coins for that matter, as I generally collect commemorative quarters and such, but these really interest me, and I would love to know exactly what I have. I've taken photos of them, so you can see what they look like. Hope someone can tell me about them!<img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y285/hellsgate/Picture228.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y285/hellsgate/Picture231.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]