augusthog said:
Looks Chineese to me. I'm sure some of the experts here can tell ya exactly what it is. Nice finds
I'm certainly not an expert, but my Taiwanese wife verifies that it is chinese. She says that it is a good luck token. She says that it has no date and is difficult to determine if it is old or more modern made to look old. She says the older ones were very thick where as the more modern versions are thinner.
I have found a few at old house sites dating back to the mid 1800s. I'm told that finding them at old house sites was not that unusual as it was good luck to nail these to the house.
