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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 221345, member: 669&quot;]Nope.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/bigs/c022.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Annamese cash coins are all similar, using the Chinese characters which read (top to bottom, left to right) the equivalent of &quot;era name money&quot;, although sounding entirely different in each language.&nbsp; For instance, the characters read in Chinese as &quot;Tong Bao&quot; are read in Japanese as &quot;Tsu Ho&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Identifying their country of origin is frequently easy based on the reverse.&nbsp; In this case the Manchu characters on the reverse, which identify the particular issuing authority/mint where it was cast, unmistakeably pinpoint it as Chinese.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We do have members who read the characters, and hopefully one of them will post an identiication.&nbsp; There are many hundred varieties from the 1300+ years of production, but the general appearance of this one says mid-18th Century to late 19th Century to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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