Need to find help with this brass? Coin? Token? Looks the size of quarter

[JDA]

 

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[MadTom]

Looks like a Chinese coin

 

[flinthunter]

Chinese Cash coin. I don't have it handy right now but there is a good identification website that maybe someone can post here.

 

[JDA]

Cool wonder what age it is

 

[oooldman]

looks to me like Emperor KAO TSUNG AD 1736-1795


http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/chinaid.htm

 

[JDA]

I'm so thankful for the help looks like a 2 dollar coin or less must have made a million of them 1795

 

[idahotokens]

My "go-to" site for Chinese cash coins:
CHINESE COIN IDENTIFICATION - Calgary Coin Gallery
John in the Great 208

 

[Daltontribe]

That identification site is quite good, thank you

 

[sagittarius98]

I'm so thankful for the help looks like a 2 dollar coin or less must have made a million of them 1795

They actually made several BILLION of these per year, with the Board of Revenue Mint in Beijing making 900 million a year alone and the other mints less. If you post the other side of yours I can actually narrow down the mint and the years it was made as the characters have a slightly different shape in various years. All I can say from the front is it's from the earlier years (1736 to the 1760s I think) as one of the characters on the front looks like a Z instead of being deformed.

 

[Eleven Cents]

There are also modern reproductions of these used in kitschy decorative Chinese objects, often tied to a red tassel. I found one recently in a coinstar and I believe it's a repro.