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The second photo writes "光绪通宝"

"光绪" is the 11th emperor of Qing Dynasty.

The words in the first photo aren't chinese.It's the language of Manchu.

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First photo = [word direction are either from left to right or top to bottom in Manchu] = "Boo ciūal": "boo" = home, house or family, I can't find the meaning of "ciūal"

For ū, substitute with v at http://www.anaku.cn/dict to get the meaning of the Manchu words. So it has something to do with family or home?

Source: http://www.anaku.cn/dict [to find the meanings in Manchu]

http://www.anaku.cn/eng/ [to find the words in Manchu "alphabet"]

The second photo writes "光绪通宝"

"光绪" is the 11th emperor of Qing Dynasty.

The words in the first photo aren't chinese.It's the language of Manchu.

That's correct.

光绪, Guangxu ruled China from 1875-1908 so the coin was made between those years.

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The Manchu character on the left is "boo" which, in this case, is a transliteration of the Chinese character "bao" (宝) meaning "treasure".

The Manchu character on the right is "Chiowan" which refers to the Board of Revenue mint in Peking (Beijing).

This particular coin, however, appears to be a modern reproduction.

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