Can anyone help me identify this strange Chinese coin? [opgelost]

Hello, I need help identify this coin! Or maybe a token? Probably Chinese, Manchurian or Korean; I can hardly read the letters as they are not Japanese kanji, or what we use today (I think the fourth one is 紀 but cannot be sure). This was included in the Japanese kosen lot I purchased a while ago. Is anyone familiar with it?

diameter: 1.6cm
weight: 6g

Hello,

I believe your token/medallion is Japanese after all; I've seen Kanji characters in a similar "font" on Japanese military medals from the early 20th century:


The last two characters (read top to bottom) are indeed "紀念" or "commemorative".

Hm, it is 記念 indeed! It may be in kyūjitai, an old font used until the 1950's, or perhaps it's just the design... The second letter looks like 遠, meaning "distant."

Anyways, thank you! It was a helpful clue!

Yeah the lovely seal script, I had a few encounters and I still struggle with two or maybe only onecharacter on this coin

If you have quite some time on your hand and a bit of knowledge you can find the right characters here
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15281-n4688-small-seal.pdf
I had a better document in the past but for the life of me I can't find it anymore.

It reads 内閣之印.

Refer to 04301 and 06341 on the document

Best regards,
SRL

The third is 忌.
My best guess would be 御遠忌記念; after research, it appears to be a Buddhist token as '御遠忌' is apparently related to Shinran, a Buddhist figure.

Oh, thank you all! This is getting very interesting.

Yes – it must be 御遠忌 / go'onki, no doubt! My Google research (in Japanese) didn't help much, though, so maybe I've actually stumbled across a pretty rare token? I now only wish I knew what this strange yet fascinating sigil is!

Thanks so much again for the clues; I will do some more research and try to find the answer!

SquareRootLolly is right.

Reverse of medal is one of 21 temples in this "Shinran 750th remembrance memorial towel". The logo of 木揚場教会 (name of a religious center in Niigata) , Shingon Otani Faction.

That is it! Thank you so much.

So my best guess is that this token was minted to commemorate "go'onki," apparently a ceremony or event held semi-centennially in remembrance of the monk associated with the temple, Shinran with this Kiageba Kyōkai temple in this case, so — the tenugui-towel in that picture is from the 750th go'onki event, held in 2013 — it must be either from 1963, 1913, or 1863! Looks too old to be 1963, so probably 1863 or 1913?