Cash Coin From China. ID Please, Thanks (Id: Replica 19th Century Cast Cash Tongzhi Emperor)

Yes, it's a replica.

It is based on the coinage of the Tongzhi emperor (1856-1875) and the mintmark appears to be Wuchang, Hupeh province (now part of Wuhan, Hubei). However, while the Chinese script is quite accurately rendered, the Manchu script on the reverse is very garbled, compared to regular coinage - it's essentially just meaningless scribbles in the rough shape for the words for "boo u" (Wuchang mint). This is a scarce mint for this emperor; with only 2 million reported mintage; that sounds like a lot, but by comparison the central mints were churning out over a billion coins per year. The rims are also too narrow for a genuine coin of this time period. Here's the only example of a genuine coin of the type shown on zeno.ru.

The black, burnt surface implies to me this could have already been used as a piece of "joss money", to be ritually thrown in a fire at funerals so the deceased have some money in the afterlife. It might have originally been made for this purpose.

just post every one we will id them together.