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FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭
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Any idea of history or current market value if any?

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  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    While I am not so sure, I would say the bottom one is indeed Chinese. It is a charm and not a coin. I will also guess that it dates from the final years of the Qing dynasty, maybe 1908-1911 period, assuming it is real. I will also guess that is an anti-Qing token as well. I will see what I can find out about this. Perhaps someone else will have more to say about it.
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    I googled the inscription on the charm (long life, wealth and honor) and found that it is a common phrase not only for charms but on all sorts of Chinese objets d'art.

    The reason I think it some from the very ned of the Qing is the presence of the big character "Han" in the middle, which stands for the Han ethnic group. There was a Han nationalist/anti-Manchu movement in China in the very final years of the dynasty. Charms and tokens with a big "Han," rather than a "Qing" as was normal, gained some popularity.
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Well, I have been looking around on-line and see that I am in over my head. There are a million zillion Chinese charms out there and I don't know diddly about them...image
  • FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭

    Thanks for checking, Sumnon!

  • 1960NYGiants1960NYGiants Posts: 3,509 ✭✭✭✭
    The top one in VG is $5 - heavily corroded ~ $1
    Gene

    Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association
    Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors

    Collector of:
    Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
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  • ColinCMRColinCMR Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭
    the Canadian token looks like it was underwater at one time
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