Found this today but i dont know what they are.

Type2 · March 19, 2013 4:33PM

Can any one shed some lite on this? Thanks in advance.

LochNESS · March 19, 2013 5:23PM

I'm going with Japanese ...

spy88 · March 19, 2013 10:02PM

Pachinko tokens??? Just a guess.

lordmarcovan · March 19, 2013 11:16PM

<< <i>I'm going with Japanese ...

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Love it!

Humorous and informational at the same time. (Of course I had already acquired that info by instinct.)

Pachinko tokens sounds like a good guess to me. I'll jump on that particular bandwagon without having any idea of the real truth in the matter.

pruebas · March 20, 2013 1:03AM

The Chinese characters don't look real to me. I think the tokens are of non-Asian origin trying to pass as cash coins. Maybe from an old costume?

lordmarcovan · March 20, 2013 1:36AM

I've seen Chinese cash replicas used as charms and in jewelry- even enameled like that- but never with numbers on them like that.

Of course if those are only pseudo-Asian characters, I'd have been none the wiser.

sumnom · March 20, 2013 2:26AM

They look like gaming token to me. I wonder if they are from Vietnam. The characters are Chinese but there are many Chinese in Vietnam and the style of calligraphy looks a little like other coins/token sI have seen from that part of the world. It is true that the characters are a little funky but they are readable.

sumnom · March 20, 2013 8:20AM

I just noticed that the Korean example in the Asian script sampler is an obscenity.

LochNESS · March 20, 2013 1:20PM

I was thinking gaming tokens, too because of the enamel, and also the arabic numeral valuations whereas Chinese cash coins have only two or four characters and these have three + Western numbers. But I would not have guessed Chinese characters, I really thought Japanese. I have seen some Vietnam lettering, and Thai-Cambodia lettering, but did not realize there would be Chinese derivations on tokens in those countries. Very interesting Sumnom!

Found this today but i dont know what they are.

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