[BGHater]

Thought it was a pretty neat find. Never know what your gonna find.

Maybe for general inv.

[muawiyah]

My Great Grandfather used to have some of those in a box the grandkids and great grandkids got to play in. Some of them were made of stone (and those aren't the kind you dismiss as "cheap").

It has been noted by others that Chinese coins were sometimes used as buttons, or rather the cores of buttons. The copper or silver core would be wrapped tightly in thread or cloth. Then sewn to clothing.

[PGR88]

The greatest fortunes in the NE in the early 19th century were from the fast-schooner trading families, so these basic coins certainly would be brought back as novelties.

From blue-and-white ceramic, to silk, to tea - trade with China in the 17th - 19th century was “big business.”

[weegee]

This reminds me of another thread I read on FR years ago where an ancient Roman coin was found inside a Texas Gulf Coast indian burial site.

[billmor]

Colonie is near Albany NY, the State Capital which sits on the Hudson River...There are any number of ways the coin could gotten to that area...The original owner may have been aChinese seaman, or a Chinese worker on one of the railroads or on the Barge Canal...it is a curious piece of history...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BGHater, very interesting! Here's just some probably wild goose chases, from the G search engine:

from Somalia (!):

2007, from Alaska:

some more:

some (I think) Javanese coins:

[SunkenCiv]

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Nobody kept curios or novelties in the Nineteenth Century, apparently. Everything had deep import.

[wolfcreek]

Ancient American, “Your money is no good here, Chinaman”

[Pharmboy]

Latham ping...