This coin has been bugging me for a while. I think the Chinese letters on the obverse (pic 2), read from right to left, is 安徽省造 meaning "made in Anhui/Anhwei" but what is written above the dragon? It looks like IIU-RDH to me and not what a normal silver 7.2 candareens coin looks like.
Is this maybe a fake coin? Or an error? I don't think it's that the letters wore out or such, so I'm sort of clueless at this point...
Has different lettering on the top of the obverse, and vastly different Latin alphabet lettering above the dragon "AN-HWEI". So it seems whoever made your coin was unaware of the discrepancy there.
I suspect yours could be a contemporary fake, or at least an older fake, since these small silver coins are not as often counterfeited nowadays as the bigger silver coins. Is it silver?
I don't know how to identify silver, so I cannot say for sure, but I'm thinking it could be an old fake since when I scrubbed it a little on tissue paper it had some stains -- OR it may be just paint or something whoever made this used. If it's fake it's just strange they didn't write "An-Hwei" right, anyway, though!
Also, I forgot to include the size and weight but, comparing it to the real one, it is smaller (the diameter about 15 or 16mm) though the weight is pretty much the same (2-3g).
