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Looks to be a 1662-1722 Q'ing Dynesty Chinese Cash Coin minted under the reign of Emperor Sheng Tsu. These coins were in circulation for centuries and I see you found it in California, where there were many Chinese immigrant miners, most likely dropped by one of them in the mid to late 1800's. Nice potentially 1600's coin.

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They are very interesting coins, I have a small horde of cash coins, a lot of them date back to around 900-1000 ad.
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Those coins were also used for decorations along with beads on Chinese sewing baskets, I remember my mother, aunt and grandmother, all three had the
sewing basket with coins and beads. Here's a picture of one something like my mothers, I remember hers had more beads. I was born in '37, so they
were common before that time.
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Been finding junk repos of Chinese coins their brittle and break easy. Their made as jewelry
 

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