Bought this at the flea market with all of those aluminum coins. The portrait of the queen looked kind of odd so I plucked it out and found out it was a Hong Kong coin. For those of you who don't know Hong Kong was a British colony for a long time. Britain signed Hong Kong over in the 1990's and since then the queen has been taken off of their currency. Hong Kong is not officially Chinese as it is still capitalist and has it's own set of laws. Read more about Hong Kong
here. This is half of the Hong Kong coins I own, the other being a 1994 dollar coin which features a flower rather than the queen. Down below is a picture of the security edge used for the coin. It's pretty neat how the edge has the reeding and the little dots which are practically inside the coin. This coin is worth about $0.10 not as much as an American or Canadian dime would be worth, but better than nothing.
NOTE: There is a variety without the security edge.
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