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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 3293037, member: 81887&quot;]This looks like a copy of a Korean &quot;horse warrant&quot; token.&nbsp; (Korea used&nbsp; Chinese written characters for most of its history.)&nbsp; These (well, the originals, anyway) were used in Imperial Korea by government officials traveling the countryside; they could be used to requisition one, two, or three horses from government stables, depending on how important the official was.&nbsp; Your piece copies the three-horse type, which would have been used only by very important officials.&nbsp; Almost all the original pieces I can find illustrated have a loop at the top.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a link to one (two-horse variety) which sold for $650 (scroll down to bottom of page):</p><p><a href="http://www.anythinganywhere.com/commerce/coins/coinpics/koreacash.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.anythinganywhere.com/commerce/coins/coinpics/koreacash.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.anythinganywhere.com/commerce/coins/coinpics/koreacash.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There are a number of varieties listed in Edgar Mandel&#039;s standard catalogue &quot;Cast Coinage of Korea&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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