Old foreign coin found. Think its Chinese, Need some ID help!!!!

[ugotit22]

Hey
Found this coin at on old homestead about 2 weeks ago. The house dates to the late 1700's. I think its a chinese coin however im just guessing. Its alittle large then a nickle and looks to be either cooper, or bronze. It features a square hole in the center and has some symbols on the sides that look like tick tack toe symbols. Any info on age or country would be cool. Thanks
Keith

 

[49r Relics]

Yes, definitely a Chinese coin . . . some of the guys on here have dug caches of these so they might be able to give a little more info, but I doubt any of us will be able to date it. Nice find

HH, Mark

 

[unclejesse67]

Yeah its a Chinese cash coin. If you Google Chinese cash coin you'll come up with websites that can ID the dynasty that the coin dates from. Nice Find.

 

[tymcmurray]

The nearest I can tell from your photos is that is
from the Ch'i9ng dynasty from 1644 - 1911 a.d..
Quite a long run.
Check out this site, and you can narrow it down better.

http://www.sportstune.com/chinese/coins/chiaching.html

Have fun!!!

 

[Montana Jim]

Montana Jim knows quite a bit about Chinese Cash Coins ...

Hey Jimmy Get over here...

Nicky

LOL... Mostly I spend time using that site above that ty posted! I have a few other sites too... but that's the best one.

 

[ugotit22]

Thanks for all the info. I checked the sites and it looks to be the ching dynasty u guys spoke of. thanks again for helpin out.
Keith

 

[rmptr]

I like the Chinese cash coins. They're neato.

They made SO many of them, for SO long, it seems like they don't have much value as collectibles.

That's ok, I still like 'em!

HH

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Can't be bad luck to find em, usually means that you are near a turn of the century site. keep digging!
Carl

 

[mlw67]

Your coin is pretty worn, but from what I can see I think it is from the Chien-Lung period, dating it to between 1736 and 1796.

The characters may vary slightly from coin to coin, but I will paste a selection of Chien-Lung coins here that you can compare to yours.

You really only need to worry about the top and bottom characters on the side that I show here.

 

[ugotit22]

Your coin is pretty worn, but from what I can see I think it is from the Chien-Lung period, dating it to between 1736 and 1796.

The characters may vary slightly from coin to coin, but I will paste a selection of Chien-Lung coins here that you can compare to yours.

You really only need to worry about the top and bottom characters on the side that I show here.

with these pics it def looks like the one i have. Thats real cool. thanks for the info im going to try and take bettter picks later when i get home