ScottO Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 been to japan for a couple of weeks, picked up these bits, all coins that seem to have been used as charms etc. nice design probably used as a charm nailed to a door through the central hole. 21 wave 4 mon from 1768. and these 2 i need identifying this one is larger then the others. the 2 above coins are on some string, there are a few other corroded bits (including another one of the "wave" coins, others are unidentifiable but thicker so perhaps more modern?) these 2 are the key coins, and i want to know what they are, and what the thing is. there is also a piece of paper with some caligraphy on it but quite faded, its a long piece rather then the usual sized paper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Very nice Scott. I hope you enjoyed your trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corina Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 try China cash coins oddly enough they kind of look like mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottO Posted April 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 yes they did have chinese, i suspect the larger one is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMS Posted May 1, 2013 Report Share Posted May 1, 2013 On the top one the string is covering part of the inscription. But it appears to be inscribed as Zheng He Tong Bao (read it as: Top Bottom Right Left). This would place it between 1111-1118, of Chinese origin. If you can show the Top character better, it will verify. They can can be bought wholesale for about $3 each. Not sure about the second one yet, but I'll update later. edit: should say I am referring to the first of the "unidentified" coins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted May 1, 2013 Report Share Posted May 1, 2013 Latter two are both Sung dyn. China, IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted May 1, 2013 Report Share Posted May 1, 2013 (Wade-Giles given here as I'm still somewhat more familiar with it than pinyin) Middle one is as attributed by SMS (Cheng Ho is the Wade Giles transliteration). Ref. Schjoth 636 or so. Last one is reign title Ch'ung Ning (1102-06) and is a 10 cash issue (though most Song 10 cash reportedly circulated as 2 cash). Ref. Schjoth 621 Schjoth is a pretty dated but still quite useful standard for Chinese cash coins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottO Posted May 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2013 I thought the larger one was early, very odd how coins from the 1100's were being used in that way with 1768 and latter coins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted May 1, 2013 Report Share Posted May 1, 2013 Anything and everything circulated. You dig up a coin, you spend it :-) Even BC era cash could be encountered on occasion into the 20th century. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMS Posted May 1, 2013 Report Share Posted May 1, 2013 Thanks, CCG! I was trying to read it Top Bottom Right Left. It didn't occur to me to read clockwise around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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