Please Help ID Characters and Age

[melmurdock]

Thank you for looking!

Any input on this piece is greatly appreciated. I know there are many Chinese good fortune / fung shui coins like this but this one struck me as different so I wanted your opinions.

If you know what the characters mean please help me translate. If you know the age or history that would be great, too. I cannot decipher the back of th coin. Do you have any ideas of what is pictured here?

[checkit]

Looks to be Kuang-Hsu-Tung-Pao

Ch'ing Dynasty (1644 - 1911 a.d.)

[melmurdock]

Checkit,

Thank you for respnding so quickly. Do you know the translation of the characters?

[checkit]

KUANG HSU TUNG PAO = Coinage of the Succession of Glory

This was the first coinage made at the newly-constructed Kwangtung Mint outside the City of Canton