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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 782058, member: 4703&quot;]99% probability that it is money, and very possibly Japanese even though I cannot find it in my catalog of Japanese cash coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Japanese reading of the bottom character on the two-character side is &quot;sen&quot;, the minor monetary denomination; and the 3:00 character on the other side can mean &quot;money&quot;, &quot;finance&quot;, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many cash coins were struck, not cast, in the late 19th-early 20th Centuries, and iron coins are known.&nbsp; Corrosion has made it virtually impossible to read many of the characters with any certainty.</p><p><br /></p><p>The overall calligraphy, including the top/bottom two-character side, is more typical of Japanese than Chinese, Korean or Annamese coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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