Chinese coins or token (Boo-chiowan)

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Hi, first time here. 

I'd like to know for certain what coin I have and a bit more information on it.

 

I've been scowering the catalogue and found it is probably a Boo-chiowan token. But compared to the tokens with pictures, there are some differences.

 

I'd appreciate any feedback.

 

It's about 24mm diameter and not even 1mm thick.

I don't know the weight or material.

 Pictures cropped 

 

   [24mm / nearly 1mm] 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

   

 If a search is correct, the four symbols are translated 

 

Translations  
招 (Zhāo): Invite/Attract 
財 (Cái): Wealth/Fortune 
進 (Jìn): Enter/Advance 
寶 (Bǎo): Treasure 

 

 

 

 All those suggest modern tokens, but this looks much older ... 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

 Similar, with different reverse - N#61489 

 

 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

This is just a modern feng shui token, based off of real Chinese cash coins. If you can’t find it on Numista, that’s because genuinely thousands of these exist, and Numista isn’t really going out of its way to catalog a bunch of modern “replicas”

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