<p>I can only recognize two of them.</p>
<pre><code>？砉
换？
</code></pre>
<p>砉 might be</p>
<p>换 definitely</p>

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2021-01-25T13:41:34.707Z
2021-01-25T13:41:34.707Z
Ze Yu
<p>I have a feeling that this coin may come from Vietnam, or those characters are not Chinese. As the clothing of that man is not in a fully traditional Chinese style. There are some types of ancient Chinese characters that are hard to recognize today, but men in those eras didn't wear like this.</p>

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2019-08-23T07:06:04.417Z
The text isn't Vietnamese
dROOOze
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2019-08-24T17:22:49.950Z
Not modern Vietnamese, but perhaps the old ones before 20th century?
user150245
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2019-08-25T10:52:00.517Z
No, the text isn't Vietnamese. Have a peek at what https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%E1%BB%AF_N%C3%B4m looks like - you can recognisably see Chinese character components in all their characters. The writing on this coin doesn't look anything like Vietnamese.
dROOOze
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2019-08-21T15:28:26.957Z
2019-08-21T15:28:26.957Z
user150245
<p>I recently got my hands into this coin</p>
<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/u8RGh.jpg" alt="coin with characters in it" /></p>
<p>No idea how it got here, nor where it came from, I've tried to identify the text with some chinese speaking friends but we are unable to fully comprehend.</p>
<p>So far we guess that top left character is likely 畢
And bottom right character is likely 余</p>
<p>The other side of the coin:
<img src="https://i.sstatic.net/8jY1N.jpg" alt="coin with an image likely to be a student" />
As you can see there's definitely no &quot;value&quot; on the coin which we guess together with the fact that doesn't look like a chinese old coin, it's more like a memorial coin for some kind of finished study.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>Edit: Seeing as after over two years we still havent figured out much and this question still drives some attention I've decided to take a high resolution scan of the coin. I'm not fully satisfied with the quality so I'll leave the old images aswell.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/ifJG2.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/ifJG2.jpg" alt="High resolution coin with characters in it" /></a>
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/oCiGi.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/oCiGi.jpg" alt="High resolution coin with an image likely to be a student" /></a></p>

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2018-10-29T21:27:10.540Z
As a first impression, I'm not convinced that this is actually Chinese; the extra random unbalanced dot on the top left and bottom right is problematic, and makes it look like Jurchen. Best guess: Bottom left has a structure that looks like 搷, top right has a structure that looks like 老、考、壽. Top left looks like /呆/保. I think you should upload the other side.
dROOOze
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2018-10-30T23:52:25.127Z
Ty for the comment. I uploaded the other side of the coin.
I guess I didn't consider the possibility that it's not chinese. But given that it's so hard to know which characters are those and find any kind of meaning to it, maybe I shall start considering so.
On the other side I don't think the coin is older than 200 years (I'm not an expert, just my guess given the quality and cleanness compared with other coins) But I don't know whether it makes it more or less likely to be in a different alphabet.
Ignasi
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2018-10-31T00:45:10.693Z
For lack of a better idea, it may be an imitation of khitan or jurchen script. Given the person’s pigtail it may be the latter.
dROOOze
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2018-10-31T18:31:23.327Z
I'll try to take a better picture of the face since I can't barely see any pigtail. And while there's a chance that it's a fake, I feel it would be surprising. Afaik fake coins are not easy to make and given the "fact" that it's not real money, and the script is hard to understand and identify... Yeah just surprising.
Ignasi
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2021-01-25T14:02:58.357Z
The face looks like Brad Pitt playing the part of Fu Manchu. :)
Wayne Cheah
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Help identifying characters on a memorial coin
# Help identifying characters on a memorial coin

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-10-29)

I recently got my hands into this coin

![coin with characters in it](https://i.sstatic.net/u8RGh.jpg)

No idea how it got here, nor where it came from, I've tried to identify the text with some chinese speaking friends but we are unable to fully comprehend.

So far we guess that top left character is likely 畢
And bottom right character is likely 余

The other side of the coin:
![coin with an image likely to be a student](https://i.sstatic.net/8jY1N.jpg)
As you can see there's definitely no "value" on the coin which we guess together with the fact that doesn't look like a chinese old coin, it's more like a memorial coin for some kind of finished study.

Thanks everyone!

Edit: Seeing as after over two years we still havent figured out much and this question still drives some attention I've decided to take a high resolution scan of the coin. I'm not fully satisfied with the quality so I'll leave the old images aswell.

[![High resolution coin with characters in it](https://i.sstatic.net/ifJG2.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/ifJG2.jpg)
[![High resolution coin with an image likely to be a student](https://i.sstatic.net/oCiGi.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/oCiGi.jpg)

**Tags:** character-identification

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: As a first impression, I'm not convinced that this is actually Chinese; the extra random unbalanced dot on the top left and bottom right is problematic, and makes it look like Jurchen. Best guess: Bottom left has a structure that looks like 搷, top right has a structure that looks like 老、考、壽. Top left looks like /呆/保. I think you should upload the other side.  
> **username_0**: Ty for the comment. I uploaded the other side of the coin. I guess I didn't consider the possibility that it's not chinese. But given that it's so hard to know which characters are those and find any kind of meaning to it, maybe I shall start considering so. On the other side I don't think the coin is older than 200 years (I'm not an expert, just my guess given the quality and cleanness compared with other coins) But I don't know whether it makes it more or less likely to be in a different alphabet.  
> **username_1**: For lack of a better idea, it may be an imitation of khitan or jurchen script. Given the person’s pigtail it may be the latter.  
> **username_0**: I'll try to take a better picture of the face since I can't barely see any pigtail. And while there's a chance that it's a fake, I feel it would be surprising. Afaik fake coins are not easy to make and given the "fact" that it's not real money, and the script is hard to understand and identify... Yeah just surprising.  
> **username_2**: The face looks like Brad Pitt playing the part of Fu Manchu. :)  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2021-01-25. Score: 1

I can only recognize two of them.

```
？砉
换？

```

砉 might be

换 definitely


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### Answer by username_4 on 2019-08-21. Score: 0

I have a feeling that this coin may come from Vietnam, or those characters are not Chinese. As the clothing of that man is not in a fully traditional Chinese style. There are some types of ancient Chinese characters that are hard to recognize today, but men in those eras didn't wear like this.

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: The text isn't Vietnamese  
> **username_4**: Not modern Vietnamese, but perhaps the old ones before 20th century?  
> **username_1**: No, the text isn't Vietnamese. Have a peek at what https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%E1%BB%AF_N%C3%B4m looks like - you can recognisably see Chinese character components in all their characters. The writing on this coin doesn't look anything like Vietnamese.  

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