my daughter found one of these coins in our basement. I took it to work and asked a Chinese guy and he said if it was real it would be worth maybe $200. But, you can buy them online for $3 as some feng shui charm so its probably not the real thing. Anyway, can anyone read what it says?

It says................."Clarendon home screw you".......................I think !!!

It says K-Mart Ltd China.

They are used as buttons and your right, prob $3 each on ebay but worth seeing if the real thing.

They say:

"See, we *can* put a square peg in a round hole!"
or
"As you can see, these are the drive wheels"
or
"See how much more svelte are the low profile tyres on our new coins?"
or
"Pay just $2.50 and your hole will be rotated 45 degrees"

Mandarin is somewhat slippery; ask Kevin.

hth

I've got 3 or 4 of those that my daughter brought back from China.

Cantonese or Mandarin ??

If those coins were produced so everyone in the Peoples republic of china had one coin
they would have had to make over nearly a billion
[depending on when they were made]

1.3 Billion people in PRC ... now..

20 percent of the worlds population is chinese

Lee

[No I'm Not one of them... lol ]

I will sell you some for $100 if yr silly wnough to pay for them

there not worth much tahts why they were in yr basement

Hi

So if 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese and I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters, which one of us is Chinese?

Steve

Hi

Can you read this?

Steve

I knew I'd be lucky to get a useful answer.

I dont think for a minute that it would be a real valuable coin. the real ones on the net are similar but no tthe same.

Yeah - they are fakes. They sell them over there by the bucketload. All "authentic" of course.

I do have a nice piece of authentic bronze stashed away though. A Persian "sword" from the 6th Century BC. Only about 35 cm long - but bronze was worth almost as much as a barn door back in those days.

Apparently it was currency used about 60 years ago before the chinese revolution, make up is copper, mainly used as a good luck charm on a pendant or put on a key ring, worth is how much someone wants to pay.

The ones I've got are brand new - still got the dags on them from the casting, zero wear - brass, not copper. The oldest coins I've got are Roman - and at least they're genuine.

I asked one of my Chinese colleagues. He said that top & bottom is the name of the emperor at the time and left and right it says that it is money. It is from the Ching(?) dynasty of around 1900. So they are about 100yrs old if they are real.

During the Kuang-hsu period the first machine made cash coins of China were struck. They were struck in a very yellow brass, and tend to be very well made, but do not appear to have been too popular as they are normally seen with very little wear on them, showing they did not circulate widely. Most were made in the Kwangtung province, and were probably first struck in 1889

(Courtesy - The power of Google)