old Chinese coin.

[relic lover]

I found this at my new site. I wonder what it was doing on an old 1830s farm site . I also posted it in the what is it? section. I would love to have a date range on it. this could turn out to be my oldest coin.

 

[relic lover]

so I got some help on a date range from the what is it? Forum. apparently it is anywhere from 1736 till 1795.

does anyone know if the Colonials used these things as currency? I see a lot of them posted after being dug at old sites.

has anyone ever heard of them circulating in colonial America?

so.....can I call this a colonial copper?

 

[Mackaydon]

Most of the Chinese coins of this type came to the States in the pockets of those Chinese who worked the California gold strike areas then the Nevada silver strike areas.
Don........

 

[AQUA]

That would be such a cool find !!!

I like it !!!

Very cool find ..no doubt.

 

[relic lover]

Most of the Chinese coins of this type came to the States in the pockets of those Chinese who worked the California gold strike areas then the Nevada silver strike areas.
Don........

Point taken. I have definitely found 80 year old coins in my pocket change. weird thing is most of those Chinese arrived on the west coast. and by 1850 even Spanish silver was demonetized. so this thing had to be a souvenir or something to wind up on a remote Ridge Farm in Pennsylvania. maybe this farmer participated in the gold rush and came back with a souvenir. and hopefully a mason jar of gold nuggets for me to dig.

 

[relic lover]

or the Chinese built the railroad that ran near this farm

 

[chiloquin]

Try here Identify your Chinese coins for the ID of the coin. Great save. GL & HH

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

always a great find! Try checking this website, I used it to date the two Chinese coins I found, and yours has enough detail, too!
Chinese Coins

 

[streakert]

Yes I found one in MD last summer along with two american silver with San Francisco. Mint marks. Dating from 1902.
Never figured out the date on the Chinese coin it did look a lot like yrs

 

[cmaracing]

Coin or Token

Ironically I found one similar to yours a few days ago, some of my friends believe its a token so I don't know, now the thing is I found this one near a field in Dartmouth Mass.... Any help would be appreciated.....

 

[idahotokens]

Coins are issued by governments and were used as legal tender in their country. Tokens generally were issued by companies, individuals, and businesses and were usually not accepted by anyone or anything other than the issuing concern. True, some tokens were issued by govenments (the Alaska ARRC "Bingles", for instance, and sometimes tokens circulated as money in the area of the issuer.

The coin of the realm in China for a long period of time was the "Cash" which usually is round with a square hole.

John in the Great 208

Ironically I found one similar to yours a few days ago, some of my friends believe its a token so I don't know, now the thing is I found this one near a field in Dartmouth Mass.... Any help would be appreciated.....

 

[Army of 1]

These are found in Goldfields anywhere the Chinese prospected and mined , they are quite common . I found one on a Goldfield here in Northern Australia where it was known the Chinese were here in large numbers . They had no value ( no buying value except maybe in their own communities ) , the one I found had a rivet through it , so I guess they found a use for their value-less coins .
Many years ago on the Palmer Goldfields (Nth Queensland discovered in 1873 ) a prospector discovered a partially buried large bronze pot , this contained 33,000 Chinese coins , not the Gold he was seeking but an awesome find ..cheers Mick