Help identifying Chinese coins

Royme

I just traded for a huge lot of coins. In this lot there were these chinese coins. The only non-american coins in the whole batch. I have no idea what they are or if they are even coins. they may be medals or tokens. Any help you can give me would be appreciated. there are 18 with the same reverse but different obverses. Also ten others with broom, shovel and rake on reverse. any ideas, value, age ect.

Kurt4

I've used this site quite a bit. It has tons of links. It should get you started. Good luck.

Chinese coin site.

YC

I can only tell you that this is not a Chinese coin.

satootoko

It's some kind of Buddhist token.

Directly above the figure's head is the number 80, which also appears on the reverse of the piece. The Japanese pronunciation of the characters at the top and bottom of that side is "Ra kan", which my Beautiful Bride tells me has something to do with Buddhism, but she doesn't know either its meaning, or its correct Chinese pronunciation. She can't read the top and bottom characters at the side of the figure.

The center character on the reverse is "yen", "yuan", "won", or "dollar" in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English respectively.

Royme

Thanks so much, I appreciate your help.