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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 298850, member: 4703&quot;]It&#039;s a cash coin, probably Chinese.&nbsp; They were cast in bronze (mostly), copper, brass and iron for more than 1,000 years, to approximately 1940.&nbsp; Other countries producing them included Japan, Korea and Annam (~present day Vietnam).</p><p><br /></p><p>It is definitely not Japanese or Korean, but I&#039;m not very familiar with Annamese coins, and with the lack of the Manchu script appearing on most Chinese coins, it just might be Annamese.&nbsp; The amount of wear on some of the characters makes it even harder to locate in the reference works by someone who doesn&#039;t read Chinese.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW it <u>is</u> money, not a fortune telling or feng shui charm as adelv_unegv guessed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The square center hole has a very utilitarian purpose.&nbsp; This type of coin is cast in &quot;trees&quot;, groups from which they are then broken off and placed on a square rod, which keeps them from turning as the edges are filed smooth, eliminating the small protuberance where they were joined.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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