Help - Coin, Token, Play Money????

[ARROWHUNTER]

I dug this over the weekend in my front yard and really need some help!

Thanks
Arrowhunter

 

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[Evolution]

Chinese cash coin. See my post in the coins section of this forum. i posted one like it there. Great find. It's older than you think. Montana Jim did a great job of identifying it for me. He'll know exactly what it is and when it was used.

 

[diggummup]

Looks like a copy of a chinese cash coin Chinese cash coins were often reproduced as good luck pieces. Then again it could be real. Here is some more info.- http://www.geocities.com/zen_appeal/fengshuicoins.html

 

[chipveres]

You guys are a bad influence on me. Our local Chinese restaurant has a display of this stuff on the wall. I find myself wondering if there is any way I can get it down and out the door without the cashier noticing. Then again, I respond readily to bad influences.

Chip V.

 

[PBK]

Looks like a Chinese Shan-lung commemorative cash, c. 1796-1802, from the Board of Revenue mint in Peking.

 

[Montana Jim]

Looks like a Chinese Shan-lung commemorative cash, c. 1796-1802, from the Board of Revenue mint in Peking.

I show it written "Ch'ien Lung". But PBK is right about the coin and mintmark...

However - I'm showing the dates as: 1736-1795, ubnless it's because it commemorative? PBK - can you send me your source?

Source: http://www.sportstune.com/chinese/coins/chienlung.html

 

[PBK]

Jim, closer checking of the bottom character on the obverse would seem to indicate that this is a regular Ch'ien-lung Board of Revenue cash coin after all, and not the Shan Lung commemorative. So, the date range that you cite would be right.

My source was the Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800. However, note the following from the link that you posted:

*There is a variety of Ch'ien Lung coin known as the "Shan Lung" commemorative issue. It can be identified by the slightly different style bottom (Lung) character -
This coin is rarer than the regular Ch'ien Lung coins.

 

[diggummup]

I was going to post both of these coins because the characters looked so close. Then I noticed they weren't exact so I refrained from it.

Here is the one that "honors" Shan Lung 1796-1802




And here is the one that Jim was referring to Ch'ien Lung 1736-1795



Am I seeing these wrong? Or are there differences on both types of coins as compared to Arrowhunters coin?

 

[Montana Jim]

Am I seeing these wrong? Or are there differences on both types of coins as compared to Arrowhunters coin?

The differences are sudtle in the bottom (Lung) obverse charactor between what PBK and I were looking at.



And the mint locations on the two you posted are different...

But truthfully... extreamly similar.

Jim, closer checking of the bottom character on the obverse would seem to indicate that this is a regular Ch'ien-lung Board of Revenue cash coin after all, and not the Shan Lung commemorative. So, the date range that you cite would be right...

This coin is rarer than the regular Ch'ien Lung coins.[/color]

Too bad it's NOT the rarer of the two... thanks for the follow up PBK...

 

[diggummup]

Good enough.

 

[ARROWHUNTER]

I just want to thank all of you who replied!!!
Arrowhunter