From another forum I frequent: He said he got it in some change... says it's the same on both sides... and the local coin folks don't really know. Y'all have several more days on me with this kinda knowledge, if you find out or know what it is, I'll pass the intel forward.
HAHAHAHA... thanks Bra... that's where I got it from. Notice the pic is identical... I was hoping for some other help here.
Bra... Ummmmm... You did catch my avatar... right... Yes... I am a member of the corvetteforum too... over there I am called a liberal... over here I am not... in either case, I joined as a member after I had the car. This place educated me on how the Prius works... and the other forum educated me on why I needed to buy a Prius.
I know that you have a Corvette, I hope to have one someday also. Have you fixed her yet I remember you mentioning something about a fire before? Posted from my iPhone via the Tapatalk app.
Looks like it's upside down bro. The rectangle with the vertical line through is it the Chinese character for middle or center. The short lines above it, I think, belong below it and probably change the meaning of the character. They look like the Chinese radical for water except they are on their side, no mater whether the coin is right-side up or upside down. Hopefully my 1/2 arsed attempt to decipher it will result in a Chinese speaker telling us what the center symbols actually mean Since is has words in Roman characters it is probably from a place that has/had a big European influence. Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore??
So far I still own that car... but it needs about $4 stacks to fix... I just got the chassis right, and fixed all the leaks, gave the motor a new top end and hotter injectors, put on a new top and got the rims all balanced and trued... then the next thing that happens is the wiring harness and 3 computers are toast, as well as some stuff under the dash and the fuse panel... I haven't got the time right now to pay attention to it... the frau has been my priority, then the rentals... my toys come last.
The 忠 character means "loyalty". But I've googled "忠" and "chu-san" together, and come up with nothing of relevance. I'm intrigued... It's certainly not a coin from Singapore, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau or Taiwan. "Chu-san" sounds like it could be a romanisation of Korean, and Koreans do use Chinese characters in certain circumstances.
Probably a bar token from (as mentioned) a British influenced area like Shanghai or Hong Kong. The "loyalty" symbol coin is like a come again card here in the states. Buy one get a punch card, collect 4 and get something free. Collect some number of loyalty coins get something free. There is probably a bar or restaurant called "Chu San" in Chinglish.
...measuring off the screen the other coin is quite a bit bigger than a quarter, so seems like most coin machines would be able to reject it. Quarter is 0.955-inch diameter, why it's not exactly 1-inch, I do not know. Looks like other coin may be over 1-inch diameter.
This gave me an idea. Typing Chu San (with phonetic typing, of course) In Chinese, I got "In addition to three" In Vietnamese, it put some diacritical marks and gave me "Airports", "Note Production", "Hunting", etc. depending on the marks used. With no marks I get "Zhoushan", which Wikipedia tells me is "formerly transliterated as Chusan, is a prefecture-level city and a state-level new area in northeastern Zhejiang province of Eastern China."
