Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth centBC., to AD621including the series in the Britis Museum . # * m IE. Size 31. Wt. A representative specimen of a spurious issue made from written descriptions (as inthe 7v7/i tiny Tuini luh K. II., f. G), for unaware collectors. KNIFE-MONEY. 299 A silver knife of tlie same shape as the preceding, but larger in size, said to havebeen discovered in Shantung, is figured in the Kien Lungs Museum Catalogue,section of Money {Kin tiiicj Tsien Ink, K. II., f. 1). The legend on the obverse (thereverse is uninscribed) should read ^ ^Jij ^ -^ Txi Tni Knug
Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth centBC., to AD621including the series in the Britis Museum . # * m IE. Size 31. Wt. A representative specimen of a spurious issue made from written descriptions (as inthe 7v7/i tiny Tuini luh K. II., f. G), for unaware collectors. KNIFE-MONEY. 299 A silver knife of tlie same shape as the preceding, but larger in size, said to havebeen discovered in Shantung, is figured in the Kien Lungs Museum Catalogue,section of Money {Kin tiiicj Tsien Ink, K. II., f. 1). The legend on the obverse (thereverse is uninscribed) should read ^ ^Jij ^ -^ Txi Tni Knug Kin. M. Si20 ?«. (1574) A knife of same shape nnd size, without inscriptiou, with two centrallengthwise, is figured in the same catalogue, K. I., f. 3. ? ? ? ? it Jnra
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