Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, l@@k at these!

[ironhorse]

I ain't no Romeo, at least not yet, but finding multiples is happening all over. I finished watching Price is Right and decided to head back to the field behind my house for a two hour walk with the detector. I wasn't finding much at all when I wandered to a corner I don't think I searched before, when I left I had 5 Chinese cash coins all from within a 20 foot radius. Other finds were merely trash but these sure made scratch my head since these don't show up here too often especially in 5's!

They all appear to te same script, but the sizes vary. Sad though, I'm going to be hungry for some real finds again pretty soon, might have to check the Colonial radar!

 

[seger98]

Congratulations on the Chinese coin finds!

 

[Marc(NB)]

nice IH!!!! Must of been a laundry mat near by,many moons ago!

 

[crazyjarhead]

There must be as many chinese cash coins as there are people Nice find. 5 at that. I have found one

 

[romeo-1]

Neato! IP's favorite!

 

[skatergod6262]

that poem just fits perfect

 

[Iron Patch]

If you take mine you'll have 7!

With a title like that you should be writing my ebay auctions!

 

[Ricky1601 aka pull tab king]

good deal on finding the Chinese coins, sometimes when finding them it will make you scratch your head wondering how they got where you found them. thanks for sharing and hh

 

[Coins4Cheese]

Nice find! I've found a whole bunch of old Japanese coins. I found them at the beach, and were all found within a 20 foot radius.

 

[kuger]

Man,they do show up everywhere!I love digging them,fortunatly there were hundreds of Chinese around here and they lost a lot of them!We often find them in multiples(the most I have found in one hole were 13 in an Opium tin),but my buddy dug 32 in one hole last year.I think the multiples are because they often carried them on strings,or on metal rods(which I have seen dug as well).Hikeinmtns on here can I.D them for you and I would bet yours date to the 1700's as many seem to fall into period.

 

[fmerg]

great link to help you id the chinese squares
http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china.htm#index
i think i got it off of t-net

 

[Coins4Cheese]

great link to help you id the chinese squares
http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china.htm#index
i think i got it off of t-net

Also, if you want to look up old Japanese coins, go to this site.
http://www.sportstune.com/chinese/coins/japanese.html

Very helpful!

 

[Scratch]

Is it true odd numbers are considered good luck in East Asia, China, and Japan? Gifts and offerings are given in odd numbers. Hey, it was good luck for you, Ironhorse!

 

[fmerg]

Is it true odd numbers are considered good luck in East Asia, China, and Japan? Gifts and offerings are given in odd numbers. Hey, it was good luck for you, Ironhorse!

not sure about that but this year my birthday 01022010 reads the same backwards

 

[tymcmurray]

Cool and unusual, unless you are in the orient.
Nice quick hunt.

Ty

Updated regularly with tips and techniques

http://www.justgometaldetecting.com/index.html

 

[pepperj]

Neat find, they seemed to stand up in the soil.

 

[SCMDing]

not sure about that but this year my birthday 01022010 reads the same backwards

LOL, I was thinking the other day that I had the forward/backward b-day, but soon realized I was wrong. 01202010...

Oh yea, grats on the Chinese coins!

 

[The Patriot]

Don't know how I missed this post...Congrat on the Chinese tokens...only ever found 1.... not a big fan of them but knowing there is some age to it, pretty neat

 

[kuger]

Don't know how I missed this post...Congrat on the Chinese tokens...only ever found 1.... not a big fan of them but knowing there is some age to it, pretty neat

They arent really tokens,they were money

 

[Knightwalker]

Nice. My dad had some of those he brought back from the service years ago.
HH
Knightwalker