square-footed, flat handled Chinese spade coin; coin has square shoulders with a hole in the centre of the handle, coin splits at bottom into two feet; raised border around edges, raised line down centre; four Chinese characters on coin - top left is "bu" meaning spade, others undecipherable; shape of coin appears to date to the "Warring States period" in ancient China (247 - 221 BC); coin is accompanied by a letter requesting information about the object.