Anyone can identify?

collectormel7

It is real gold but I never seen its kind before. It is 7mm-8mm in size.

SDSportsFan

The phrase "7 mace and 2 candareens" seems to indicate the coin is Chinese.

Steve

collectormel7

Yes it is Chinese. But I am not able to determine where it is from, or identify it.

collectormel7

And thank you for your comment

WillieBoyd2

It looks like a Chinese brass imitation of a China Empire two cash coin.

MrBreeze

Assumption number 1 - you say it's real gold so you tested it and we can move forward knowing it's real gold
Assumption number 2 - 7 mace and 2 Candareens refers to a dollar if I am not mistaken, so it is a small gold copy of a dollar or some sort of pattern dollar.

Taking the coin just at face value (pun fully intended), I don't like the lettering or the crudeness to say it was an official Chinese government attempt at providing some alternative to a silver dollar. So, in my infinite wisdom, or lack thereof, I would throw out there that it might be one of those small Franklin mintish type gold representations of "world's great silver dollars in miniature gold" or some other such similar item.

Sapyx

I'd assume it was a "gold miniature". Back in the 1970s and 1980s, it was a fad down in Mexico to make miniature 8 carat gold replicas of world coins.

Zoins

@Sapyx said:
I'd assume it was a "gold miniature". Back in the 1970s and 1980s, it was a fad down in Mexico to make miniature 8 carat gold replicas of world coins.

Does any TPG slab these? Could be an interesting collection today.