Old golden asian coin

[MeteroriteMatt]

Pulled this gem out of the ground a while ago, been carrying it around as a good luck charm, never could figure out where its from. Any ideas?

 

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[TheCoinKid]

Chinese cash coin. They seem to be everywhere.

 

[ScubaDetector]

Matt, seems like all your posts are items you found early on. This is a today's finds forum and it is for finds in the last couple of days or new finds.

As stated, it is a Chinese cash coin and is worthless. They are all over the USA.

Would love to see new finds posted here and finds from yesterday posted in other parts of this forum. Good luck out there.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on your find

 

[Mackaydon]

Emperor KAO TSUNG
AD 1736-1795

reign title: CH'IEN-LUNG, AD 1736-1795
Reverse: "BOO CIOWAN" (Board of Revenue mint in Bejing). The Manchu mint name translates to Pao-Ch'uan, or "The Fountain head of the Currency".

Don....

 

[UnderMiner]

Wonder how much buying power these coins had back in their day? Like how many cash coins did it take to buy a cup of tea in 18th century China?

 

[MeteroriteMatt]

Thanks for identifying it for me, that is really interesting. its really cool to hold something so old.