chinese coin/token , back to back cresent moons ??

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been trying to id this one for a while , maybe another country ??  3.12 g ,  21 mm diam , thanks in advance for any input regards dave

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This is a charm evoking  the emperor Wu Zong who  cast  during the years 1310-1311 da yuan tong bao (大元通 宝) coins.

These coins are well known and appreciated and, as genuine ones are rare and often damaged, they are widely copied because they were written both Chinese 

and Mongol script versions 

Yuan Dynasty
                  da yuan tong bao coin

in values of 1 cash and very big 10 cash.

 

On your coin, characters tongbao have been replaced by crescent and decrescent moons which is not the usual way of charm.

A more orthodox charm construction would have been to put a sun and a crescent moon on reverse.

 

So I bet it's a charm that's no more than a few decades old.

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that was quick !! thank you again , had that replica look about it , thought i would be able to find it based on the cresent moons , back to the other hundreds to id dave

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