China 7 [opgelost]

Both sides are the same. 1.18 gr, 17 mm wide

That's an interesting coin
I can read "Guang Ming Shi Jie" yet I don't know what the hell is this coin

I just found on internet :
China Kwangtung Province Chinese Guang Ming Shi Jie Money “World of Brightness” Coin (Token) "Ghost Money" Brass ND (ca 1900)

Please issue a new entry in the database with your coin

I will add it as soon as the Kwangtung Province site is active again.

An interisting website about this type ofcoins

Frenchlover, thanks for the link, very interesting.

Thank you frenchlover for that very interesting article. That is the exact "coin" that I have. I did not know that actual coins or tokens were used for a funeral. We only burned paper funeral or hell money (and a great paper contraption with money, maids, cars, planes and houses etc. for the after life)

I also did not know that according to the social custom, Chinese would place some real coins into the coffin, when they bury a dead person. This was also the custom in Greece and some other cultures.