Can anyone read Chinese

[jmill73]

Found this in my backyard today. Not sure of dynasty. The size of it is a little smaller than a quarter

 

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[ArmyJoe]

Give am a couple days! My brother is fluent, I'll send it to him n get back to you.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Can't read Chinese, but let me be a bit of a kill-joy on these cache coins. They were made up to as recently as the 1910s. And let's assume your coin has 4 characters on both sides. That would make it amongst the newer types. But even assuming yours has 2 characters on the back-side (which would make it the older type, dating from the 1600 & 1700's), it still doesn't shed any light on a) when it was lost, and b) value.

a) those coins came over to the USA in apparent barrel-fulls. There's TONS of them at any place chinese emigrants landed at (and even well-beyond). And this was in total disregard for their mintage dates. They go in dynasties or something like that (30 or 50 yr. spans, etc...). And must've been stored in barrels over in China for 100's of years, before ever embarking on journeys or distributions. Because they arrived here in the USA with utterly no relevance to their date of minting. So for example, you can find them dated as far back as the 1600s in Chinatown (gold rush, RR workers, etc...) sites dating to the mid to late 1800s. So the date of minting has no bearing whatsoever on when they were lost.

b) none of them have any value. They're cool as a historic item, and are barber or seated "age indicators" (as to stratas), but beyond that, nothing but a curiosity piece.

 

[EccentricInTexas]

There are some that may have value, as to which one that is you will have to hunt through this site Chinese coin and charm images and try to match up photos till you figure out which coin it is.

 

[EccentricInTexas]

I think its actually Korean and this one 19th century Korean coin (Sang Pyong Tong Bo), 100 Mun 19th century Korean coin (Sang Pyong Tong Bo), 100 Mun

 

[Mackaydon]

Welcome to Treasure Net !!
Can you show a pic of the coin's reverse side?
And either tell us the diameter in mm or place something next to the coin to give us relative size.
Thanks,
Don.....

 

[shoague]

Is a barber or seated not a good coin? I would love to find either

 

[jmill73]

Sorry ive updated the post of reverse side

 

[sutphin]

HEY 73 SEE YOU GOT ONE OF THOSE CORNFUCIOUS COINS NEAT.

 

[TheRingFinder]

The population of China is estimated at 1,393,783,836 - So probably at least that many people.

 

[Mackaydon]

The quarter has a 24.3 mm diameter; that rules out the "100 Mun" coin in this thread--at 40 mm.

 

[ArmyJoe]

So my brother got back to me about the writing on the coin. He says its literal translation is " Treasure Bucket" in modern Mandarin Chinese. It may mean something different depending on the period in time when it was minted and under what dialect. He wasn't able to read all of it due to the pic. Hope that helps a bit!

 

[Yang Hao]

Old post but I thought I would ID the coin.
it's a 康熙通宝 kangxi tong bao

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_Emperor