Not a good start, but pulled what looks like my oldest coins to date

[8Reales]

As am getting my stuff ready, I'm about to plug in my headphones and notice the headphones port sunk into the box, what else could u expect its a tracker IV, I quickly pulled a phillips screwdriver and took the box apart and managed to the headphone port in the correct place. This really threw my off, to make matters worse, my batteries. I also carry extra and guess what the NEW batteries in backpack were dead. I just happened to have some used ones and those work good. But for the entire hunt the detector was not right. I don't know if it was that i opened the box or the use batteries. I got a total of 5 Dimes, 3 Pennies and 1 Quarter, and on my very last hole, pops pendant looking thing, with a square hole in the middle, upon examining i notice it was a Chinese coin. It had a clothing piece attached to hang like pendant i guess from a chain. When i got home i took the clothing strip to look at the characters in more detail. The coin seem really thick, and it look like sandwich metals. Thats when i notice it was actually 3 coins and they were being held together by the clothing strip. Although I been a coin collector for about 10 years, I have never had any Chinese coins like this ones. I know they are common, but never owned one. If anyone has any info, please let me know. I curious the find out what time period are they from.

 

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[CRUSADER]

Good to get coins you need

 

[Randy Combs]

At last, redemption for a crappy day. I dug my one and only Chinese coin in October and was thrilled.

 

[against the wind]

I pulled a similar Chinese coin that was attached to a wrist
band that was woven. I got it with the Excalibur in the water.
I was.told that it was a good luck coin.

 

[bill from lachine]

8Reales,

I'm not good at dating the Chinese cash coins but they seem to have some age.

A bit of background info for you back in the day the Chinese pants didn't have any pockets just a draw string similar to marshal arts uniforms so they'd
string the coins together and wear them around their neck for safe keeping.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[CRUSADER]

I'm no good with these types of coins, but experience on here tells me they could very likely be 1700s. Full ID will need better pictures.

 

[Carolina Tom]

Check this out:

Amazon.com - Chinese Feng Shui Coins for Wealth and Success - 2 sets of 3 - Decorative Hanging Ornaments

I have a set of three "modern" good luck coins on a string, like the above referenced link. Since you found three, I thought that maybe they were modern, someone might have had them on a key ring, the string broke, and on the ground they went.

Nice find either way, and best of luck to you in 2016!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice finds. Glad your day got better.

 

[8Reales]

Nice finds. Glad your day got better.

I also think they are modern lucky charm, but I think the coins are real and old, I've know that these coins are abundant and not expensive at all. So people just fix them into charms to make a quick buck.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

I've only ever found one so far, I think they're neat.

 

[Gridwalker306]

Old Chinese coins are awesome to find, and fun to ID. Bottom left in your pic looks like this coin: