List 265


Chinese Coins
 
Item No. Photo Description Price
CHOU: Anonymous, ca. 700-500 BC, gilt AE imitation cowry (1.29g), H-1.3, a lovely example with most gilt intact, much nicer than usual, Extremely Fine.
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WARRING STATES: State of Yan, 350-250 BC, AE square foot spade, H-3.401, xiang ping , seemingly without reverse character, encrusted Fine, S.

Picked for quality from a hoard of about 400 pieces of nearly all the same type. Most of the hoard was barely identifiable of which 20% were undecipherable.
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WESTERN HAN: Anonymous, 73-33 BC, AE cash, H-10.29, Wu Zhu, small 'goose eye' type, Fine, ex. Chang Collection.
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  HSIN: Wang Mang, 7-23 AD, AE cash, H-9.14, Xiao Quan Zhi Yi, Fine, ex. Chang Collection.
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  HSIN: Wang Mang, 7-22 AD, AE cash, H-9.60, huo quan, thick bing (biscuit) type, crude Fine.
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NORTHERN CHAO: Anonymous, 557-581, AE cash, H-13.30, Wu Xing Da Bu, Very Good to Fine, ex. Chang Collection.
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  NORTHERN SUNG: Shao Sheng, 1094-1097, iron large cash, H-16.304, broad bao type, seal script, crude Very Fine.
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  NORTHERN SUNG: Chong Ning, 1102-1106, iron large cash, H-16.416, clerical script, crude Fine.
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  NORTHERN SUNG: Da Guan, 1107-1110, iron large cash, H-16.422, slender golden script, crude Very Fine.
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  NORTHERN SUNG: Da Guan, 1107-1110, iron large cash, H-16.424, slender golden script, crude Very Fine to Extremely Fine.
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  NORTHERN SUNG: Zheng He, 1111-1117, iron large cash, H-16.440, seal script, crude Very Fine.
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  NORTHERN SUNG: Zheng He, 1111-1117, iron large cash, H-16.454, clerical script, crude Very Fine.
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YUAN: Zhi Zheng, 1350-1368, AE 10 cash, H-19.115. S-1111, 'Phags-pa script weak, heavy encrustation, Extremely Fine.
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YUAN: Tian You, rebel, 1354-1357, AE 3 cash, H-19.137, san, in seal script above on reverse, Fine to Very Fine, ex. Jess Yocker Collection.
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MING: Chong Zhen, 1628-1644, AE charm, CCH-—, contemporary issue, chong zhen tong bao / horse right, Fine, S, ex. Chang Collection.

Horse charms were used in the Da Ma game popularized in the Song and Yuan dynasties.
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  MING REBELS: Yong Chang, 1644-1645, AE charm, H-21v, 52mm, fantasy multiple cash likely cast in the early 20th century, Very Fine.
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MING REBELS: Xing Chao, 1648-1657, AE candereen, H-21.13, S-1334, Very Fine.
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MING REBELS: Xing Chao, 1648-1657, AE candereen, H-21.13, minor encrustation, Very Fine.
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  MING REBELS: Yong Li, 1646-1659, AE 5 cash, H-21.75, wu li on reverse, Fine, S, ex. Chang Collection.
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  MING REBELS: Li Yong, 1674-1678, AE cash, H-21.87, li at right on reverse for 1 li of silver, Very Fine.
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  MING REBELS: Xing Chao, 1648-1657, AE candereen, H-21.14, minor encrustation, Very Fine.
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CH'ING: AE cash, CD1909, Y-18, in the name of Kuang Hsu, somewhat weakly strike, Fine.
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CH'ING: Xian Feng, 1851-1861, iron 10 cash, Board of Revenue mint, Peking, H-22.741, Cr-1-6.2a, pingding type, likely cast 1855-59 in Shanxi Province, attractive Very Fine to Extremely Fine, R.
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CH'ING: Tong Zhi, 1862-1874, AE 4 cash, Ili mint, Xinjiang Province, H-22.1226, crude Fine to Very Fine, R.

Ili (now Yining) was the site of the Sino-Russian Treaty of Kulja 1851, which opened the area for trade. In 1864-66, the city suffered severely from fighting during Muslim Rebellions. In 1866, Ili was siezed by the rebel, Mu'azzam Khan. The city and the rest of the Ili River basin were seized by the Russians in 1871 during Yakub Beg's independent rule of Kashgaria. It was restored to China under the terms of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg in 1881. This was the last of the cash coins cast in Ili.
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  CH'ING: Kang Xi, 1662-1722, AE cash, Board of Works mint, Peking, H-22.93, cast in 1662-83, ornately engraved rims, Very Good to Fine, S.
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CH'ING: Xian Feng, 1851-1861, AE 50 cash, Nanchang mint, Jiangxi Province, Cr-15-6.1, H-22.931., Fine.
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CH'ING: Xian Feng, 1851-1861, AE 100 cash, Chengdu mint, Sichuan Province, Cr-24-7, H-22.981., Fine to Very Fine.
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  REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Min Guo, 1912, AE 2 cash, Fuzhou mint, Fujian Province, H-24.5, Y-375, local cast issue, five stripes on flag, Fine.
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CH'ING: Yong Zheng, 1723-1735, AE amulet, CCH-389, S-32, dragon & phoenix, likely made in the 1930's during the Min Guo era, Very Fine.

From old Chinese collection with original tag written with fountain pen in Chinese.
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CH'ING: Qian Long, 1736-1795, AE charm, CCH-395, dragon & phoenix on reverse, likely of mid-late Qing manufacture, nice Fine.
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CH'ING: Dao Guang, 1821-1850, AR medal, Board of Works mint, Peking, hand engraved cash coin style medal on machine struck flan, interesting, lightly toned Extremely Fine.
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