biff52Apr 26
Found an old coin in my yard today, suspect it's Chinese:
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@biff52 Yes, that's a Chinese coin, Qing dynasty, late 1800s. Issued under Emperor De Zong, the second picture is the obverse (upside down) and reads (top, bottom, right, left) Guang Xi (The emperor's name) Tong Bao (Circulating currency). The reverse gives the mint: Jilin, in north-east China. Yours was cast (I put a couple links on this post): https://coinofnote.com/northern-song-2-cash-xuan-he-tong-bao/ though interestingly there was a machine-struck version of this coin as well. More notes in the images, which are from page 412 of David Hartill's Cast Chinese Coins book

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May 2 at 12:30amWeb
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Thank you so much for this thoughtful and informative reply! It reminded me of some that my grandmother had which were not lost in dirt for a hundred years or more.
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Very cool

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@biff52 @numismatics @histodons You're most welcome! It's always interesting to take the opportunity to look up a piece like this. Do share any others you find! And of course, as others commented, exactly HOW it came to be there is a fascinating story in its own right - I could just look up where it was made, but how it got from there to you would be an amazing story (though harder to find out of course)