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<p>[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 927797, member: 4703"]Probably Chinese, possibly but probably not, money.</p><p><br /></p><p>The characters in the left picture (except for the "10" - looks like a plus sign) are in the classical script modernly used primarily for personal seals, and very difficult to read.</p><p><br /></p><p>That picture is properly oriented, but the right picture needs to be rotated 90º to the right. The central four characters, read top right, bottom right, top left, bottom left, appear to be a Chinese regnal year and the denomination 1 Ryo (Japanese reading - I don't know the equivalent Chinese word). There is also what may be some Manchu characters on the sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>The vast majority of Imperial coinage is cast, not struck, and your piece is almost certainly struck, causing me to suspect it is a token of some sort.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 927797, member: 4703"]Probably Chinese, possibly but probably not, money. The characters in the left picture (except for the "10" - looks like a plus sign) are in the classical script modernly used primarily for personal seals, and very difficult to read. That picture is properly oriented, but the right picture needs to be rotated 90º to the right. The central four characters, read top right, bottom right, top left, bottom left, appear to be a Chinese regnal year and the denomination 1 Ryo (Japanese reading - I don't know the equivalent Chinese word). There is also what may be some Manchu characters on the sides. The vast majority of Imperial coinage is cast, not struck, and your piece is almost certainly struck, causing me to suspect it is a token of some sort.[/QUOTE]
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