[muawiyah]

I've heard folks call that a "chop" ~ which may or may not be the right term but that's what it is. Used to be even the poorest Chinese families had a character on a ring ~ usually a silver alloy. I have a collection of them.

It was traditional during wars for the authorities to take up collections "to finance the war". These rings were usually melted down. Some managed to get saved from a war late in the 1800s, and after WWII.

[Red Badger]

So that’s where the term ‘chop-chop’ came from?.........like ‘aye-aye, sir’?.............