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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 23476, member: 669&quot;]Hi Hy!&nbsp; Welcome to the forum.&nbsp; Stick around and maybe we can turn you into a coin collector. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> 1 cash.&nbsp; The character at the top of your first picture (which needs to be rotated 90 degrees to the right), identifies it as Chinese, but further identification is impossible without better pictures.</p><p>Between several hundred years BCE and 1911Coinage of this type (originally only copper or bronze, but in recent centuries some brass and occasionally iron), was cast in China, Japan, Korea and the Indo-chinese penninsula for many centuries.&nbsp; Some believe that they pre-date European coinage.&nbsp; The coins frequently circulated throughout the region, without respect to where they were cast.&nbsp; Japan stopped making them in 1870, China in 1911, and Korea and Annam (approximately present-day Vietnam) between those dates.&nbsp; The square hole served two purposes.&nbsp; The coins were cast in groups, and a number of them would be placed on a square rod to facilitate grinding the edges smooth after they were separated.&nbsp; Once they were separated, they could be strung together for ease of carrying in pocketless clothing. There are many hundreds of known varieties.&nbsp; The characters generally specify the location of casting and the issuing authority.&nbsp; Without fully identifying yours and seeing it&#039;s condition, the only thing that can be said about value is that at one extreme you can buy cash coins on EBay for a few cents per coin in multiple coin lots, and at the other there are a few issues that command prices in the tens, possibly even hundreds, of dollars.&nbsp; Unfortunately, a recovered buried coin such as yours probably has no commercial value, due to its poor condition <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> .&nbsp; There were literally billions of cash coins cast, and lots and lots of them survive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where is this back yard of yours?&nbsp; At that depth it may have been lost by an early 19th Century immigrant, many years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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