yard find

[weygtya]

Found this in my back yard (northern Lancaster Co. Pa). I'd just love to know how it made it's way a foot deep in my back yard. What I've found out online about it.
Top symbol means Kang, bottom symbol means Xi, right symbol means circulating, left symbol means currency. So the Kangxi Emperor reigned from 1661 to 1722.

 

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[Carolina Tom]

It is a Chinese cash coin. I heard that they sent barrels of them over here with the railroad building Asian laborers. They are found all over the place, but especially in the western US.

Nice find.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats

 

[btjbtj]

Neat find! Congrats. -Lisa & John

 

[ucvrelics.com]

Nice find, Maybe with this you can tell what it says, gives me a headache

 

[Rogue Relic Hunter]

really nice find. love to find one of those. congrats!

 

[patiodadio]

Nice find, Maybe with this you can tell what it says, gives me a headache

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My Chinese is a little rusty but I think it says "Garrett ATPro is the best Metal Detector"

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice job on the Chinese cash coin.

 

[Myth legend]

My Chinese is a little rusty but I think it says "Garrett ATPro is the best Metal Detector"

LOL

 

[Trezurehunter]

I am pretty sure it says "We have the best Hamburgers in town" !

Nice find, Maybe with this you can tell what it says, gives me a headache

 

[texjim]

Cool find..

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice find, congratulations!

 

[weygtya]

The coin reads Kang Xi circulating currency but in this pic of the other side I'm not so sure what the bottom reads.

 

[Appalachianman76]

I found a Korean cash coin about a month ago in Southeastern Kentucky. Even though they aren't worth a lot, they can be very very old. Mine turned out to be minted from 1695 -1742. Lots brought over into the Western United States with Asian immigrants working on the railroads. However, in the Eastern part of the country Asians did not help build the railroads. Eastern railroads such as those in Pennsylvania and Kentucky where built by Irish immigrants. I found mine deep like you (mine was at 10 inches). This is a little deep for a coin that could have been brought back by a Korean War Vet. However, I found out that from the late 1800's to about the 1920's a fashion trend for the ladies was to have a sewing basket with these coins on them as decoration. Kinda like the Longaberger basket trend of modern times. This makes more sense to me in explaining how they got into yards of eastern areas during the turn of the century (when immigrants in this area where from different parts of Europe and not yet from Asia) and the depth they are found. A lady was sitting out in the yard sewing and the coin fell off or a child took it off their mothers sewing basket to play with and lost it out in the yard.