Hello,
It's a cash cast under Jiaqing, I think that the mint is boo-kiyan (Guiyang, Guizhou) but second pic is upside down.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces45600.html
And china coin history is very different from the western world, but is far from boring (well, that's my opinion

), just very long, complex and seemingly unattractive to most of non-chinese people.