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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 60057, member: 669&quot;]Hi PPix3, and welcome to the forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you are describing is known as a &quot;cash&quot; coin, and besides China and Japan, where they were produced for over 1,000 years, they were also cast in Korea and Annam, which was roughly the same place as modern Vietnam.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chances are it&#039;s Imperial Chinese from the mid-19th to early-20th centuries, because those are the most common, but until we see pictures of both sides it can&#039;t be identified more specifically. </p><p><br /></p><p>The square hole is a characteristic of this type of coin made necessary by its method of production.&nbsp; For centuries coins were sand cast in &quot;trees&quot;, joined by small bars where the molten metal flowed from molding to molding.&nbsp; The coins were then broken off and put onto square wooden sticks, so that they wouldn&#039;t rotate while the nubs were ground or filed off.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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