Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth centBC., to AD621including the series in the Britis Museum . |- sIiUi. ton. ^. .Size 7 8. \Vt. 1278. Tsih-moh iu Shantuuy, us 44-49, 53 above. Ymj-Uiuj is the modern Tcliang-lohg 1^ , in Tsing-tchou fu (lat. :JG° 42, long. 118° 58), Shantung. Kai-fung isstill the name of a prefecture (lat. d\° 53, long. 114° 3:>) in Honan. Knife-Money of , E. Shantung, with the same obverse as 45-49, 882-895,was issued with the following names on the reverses. The wood-cuts do not re-produce the two first and always the same symbols H + ? (0-21) (925) H + ^


Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth centBC., to AD621including the series in the Britis Museum . |- sIiUi. ton. ^. .Size 7 8. \Vt. 1278. Tsih-moh iu Shantuuy, us 44-49, 53 above. Ymj-Uiuj is the modern Tcliang-lohg 1^ , in Tsing-tchou fu (lat. :JG° 42, long. 118° 58), Shantung. Kai-fung isstill the name of a prefecture (lat. d\° 53, long. 114° 3:>) in Honan. Knife-Money of , E. Shantung, with the same obverse as 45-49, 882-895,was issued with the following names on the reverses. The wood-cuts do not re-produce the two first and always the same symbols H + ? (0-21) (925) H + ^ fi .sv,. ../m7,. Wang. An for An-n^nig, as 29,, 32, 50, 51 (lU0-920). Variiiiit of (924). ag TCIIOU DYNASTY. (920) fol O^ Variaut of (92-t). ^ IVN^ T + the-obverse of 54. ))g. Kui-fung as on References , heng III., ff. 1, 2.—, heng I., fE. 18, , XXL, f. 45. ((;.,nh«r Coll.) Tsi m Kwan m ti-hu7ig wang ^ f fe liu m heng n hi M fan ii tze ^x kiu * hwa it Returnable-reviviui currency of all trawl linjj traders of Ts ;ili(i KwHll tclning. 55. Obverse. ?nr ,s07?. si7ig. Star. Figure in relief of a manholding a polewith a flag. Five Hang. /E. Size 8-1. Wt. 1480. Kn:>ui-tcliiin(j was the name of the capital of the great state of Tsin, then on itsgrowing way to the empire. The merchants of Tsi used to go there on commercialexpeditions. See above 37, 38 p. 108 and (4(J0, 78-1., 794). KNlFK-iMt)Ni:V. IV. KNIFE-MONEY {coHlimtcd). A. Larger sort. c. Tsi series. 1. Six-character legends. (928) Obverse. Tsi n fan m. m wan (J f± m tze iX m kin * ;^ hwa ^t H Reverse. i. e. Returuable-reviviugcurrency of Tsi. Only the three transversal lines,^^ san. Three. The same legend appears on the following issues (929-944), with some importantvariants in the second, third, and fourth symbols which alone are here given in lac-simile, and with different reverses, as follows : (929) Tsifanwan (J Only the three transversal lines,?^^^ san. Jh


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