Can some help with identifying this token/coin?

[🧱South Jersey Scolino🏴☠️]

Found today 👍🏻! Looking for information regarding the year of this coin/token. Can someone translate both sides of the coin to English? Also if this is not currency, what was the purpose for having these? How does this coin/token relate to the Circular Mound Altar, located in TEMPLE, BEIJING, CHINA, built in 1530 and rebuilt in 1749?

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Cool find!

 

[Whyme]

Yep that is a very cool find! Congrats! No idea what it's for! lol Very strange it has English and Chinese writing.......

 

[Mackaydon]

Altar is misspelled on the token; odd.
Don...

 

[wallrat_1975]

The Chinese writing on the front says Circular Mound. I assume the misspelling is due to poor translation which leads me to assume this was some sort of keepsake purchased when visiting. I'm digging around to see what I can find as well.

 

[wallrat_1975]

I can't find a definitive picture, but this sure seems probable:

"Further north at the foot of the Four Major Continent lies the Suzhou Shopping Street. Built along the Back Lake of the Summer Palace, this street stretches about 300 meters and features more than 60 stores. It includes restaurants, teahouses, pawnshops banks, drugstores dye houses and publishing houses. In order to recreate the atmosphere of ancient times, visitors will have the chance to exchange their money to ancient style Chinese coins for use here. Storefronts are trimmed with traditional signboards and ornaments. The commercial culture of the mid-18th century has thus been recreated."

https://st.hujiang.com/topic/164953741486/

 

[🧱South Jersey Scolino🏴☠️]

I can't find a definitive picture, but this sure seems probable:

"Further north at the foot of the Four Major Continent lies the Suzhou Shopping Street. Built along the Back Lake of the Summer Palace, this street stretches about 300 meters and features more than 60 stores. It includes restaurants, teahouses, pawnshops banks, drugstores dye houses and publishing houses. In order to recreate the atmosphere of ancient times, visitors will have the chance to exchange their money to ancient style Chinese coins for use here. Storefronts are trimmed with traditional signboards and ornaments. The commercial culture of the mid-18th century has thus been recreated."

https://st.hujiang.com/topic/164953741486/

Thank you for all the information!

 

[A2coins]

Good ID very nice find

 

[A2coins]

Welcome also from MI tommy

 

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