Ancient Chinese/Japanese Coins 0

[Kilroy2112]

Need help identifying these coins, dynasty, date, value, condition, etc. any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Kilroy2112]

[Kirt]

Great pics - I think the first one may be a modern replica/tourist token; looks like someone's idea of Taiping but the coinage is modern.

The second looks real. Need a solid picture of the back of the coin even if blank to help further but I think I can make out enough on the obverse to guess at Guangxu (Qing dynasty). I'd start there.

[JKK]

My guess is that the first coins are from the Fa-King dynasty of sometime in the last thirty years.

The second looks more authentic, but with only one side photographed, no way am I going digging for it.

[Kilroy2112]

6 hours ago, Kirt said:

Great pics - I think the first one may be a modern replica/tourist token; looks like someone's idea of Taiping but the coinage is modern.

The second looks real. Need a solid picture of the back of the coin even if blank to help further but I think I can make out enough on the obverse to guess at Guangxu (Qing dynasty). I'd start there.

Thank you so much for your help! This is the back of the second coin that appears to be authentic.

[Kirt]

Thanks for the reverse - sadly, didn't help. I'm either wrong on Guangxu (光绪), my search ability is insufficient, or it too is a tourist token. There appears to be damage on the xu ideogram so I'd guess I'm interpreting that wrong.

Another option, the "guang" ideogram (光) is more like Vietnamese than Chinese examples; I took a quick look but nada.

Good luck on this one - I'd definitely be interested in what it turns out to be.