found this but not sure what it is.

[RodneyU]

 

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[ArfieBoy]

What does the other side look like? Is this picture upside down?

 

[CreakyDigger]

Here are the words....see what you think. Looks like "Marel or Maru Gyce" maybe.

 

[RodneyU]

What does the other side look like? Is this picture upside down?

It is upside down and both sides are the same. I thought token maybe.

 

[oldmxrat]

Looks like some kind of token, cool.

 

[RVRoamer74]

Yep a token. Here it is right side up. Congrats on the find.

 

[Red-Coat]

I read it as "Marujyu", which is a not uncommon Japanese name, extending to countries with Japanese people in their populations.

Lots of Japanese-based companies with that name (using it with Western alphabet characters) making all kinds of things. I was hoping to find one related to arcade games, slot machines (pachinko maybe), or something similar but drew a blank. There is one that makes vending machines, but they have a different logo.

 

[RodneyU]

I read it as "Marujyu", which is a not uncommon Japanese name, extending to countries with Japanese people in their populations.

Lots of Japanese-based companies with that name (using it with Western alphabet characters) making all kinds of things. I was hoping to find one related to arcade games, slot machines (pachinko maybe), or something similar but drew a blank. There is one that makes vending machines, but they have a different logo.

I have not been able to find anything on it. I’ve searched that name and come up with no tokens or pics of them.

 

[Red-Coat]

I have not been able to find anything on it. I’ve searched that name and come up with no tokens or pics of them.

Me neither, but if it's pachinko-related it could be a needle in a haystack. Pachinko started in the 1920s as a children's mechanical game and then expanded into adult gambling using tokens for payment, especially in Japan where it's illegal to gamble for cash. At the peak of popularity in 2012 there were almost 12,000 pachinko halls in Japan alone.

 

[RodneyU]

Me neither, but if it's pachinko-related it could be a needle in a haystack. Pachinko started in the 1920s as a children's mechanical game and then expanded into adult gambling using tokens for payment, especially in Japan where it's illegal to gamble for cash. At the peak of popularity in 2012 there were over 12,000 pachinko halls in Japan alone.

I found it in my yard in Ohio

 

[Red-Coat]

I found it in my yard in Ohio

Sure. I found an Arabic belly-dancer 'coin' and a Canadian token in my garden in England but I didn't attach any significance to their origins (except my house was billeted as HQ for the Canadian army in WWII).

 

[Digger RJ]

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Nice!!!! Congrats!!!