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smokeythecat
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These are Chinese cash coins. They have been made for hundreds of years. Yours is probably about 200 years old. I found one earlier this year. If you look them up on the net you can get a date range.
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Smokey is right. Coin with the hole is Chinese, and they are pretty plentiful here in the U.S., especially if you hunt in the fields. You mentioned your Merc is a 1916. Flip that thing over, and see if it has the D Mint mark. If so, you found a good one. There were only 264,000 of those minted.
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