Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth centBC., to AD621including the series in the Britis Museum . Reverse. Plain, withoutmarks or rims. ANCIKNT KOUNI)-I\rONKY. -Hang. Pan- Half an Obverse and Eeverse. A late imitation. 176. Nearly similar to preceding. Reverse. Plain, withoutmarks or rims. M. Same size. Wt. 250. Obverse and Reverse. 177. Nearly similar to preceding. M. Siinie size. Wt. 280. 178. Dbverse and Reverse. Nearly similar to preceding. .E. Same size. Wt. 210. 338 TSIN DYNASTY, VIII. ANCIENT ROUND-MONEY {continued). Tsin Dynasty ^ IE Five rulers, from 255 to 206 r,.c.

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Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth centBC., to AD621including the series in the Britis Museum . Reverse. Plain, withoutmarks or rims. ANCIKNT KOUNI)-I\rONKY. -Hang. Pan- Half an Obverse and Eeverse. A late imitation. 176. Nearly similar to preceding. Reverse. Plain, withoutmarks or rims. M. Same size. Wt. 250. Obverse and Reverse. 177. Nearly similar to preceding. M. Siinie size. Wt. 280. 178. Dbverse and Reverse. Nearly similar to preceding. .E. Same size. Wt. 210. 338 TSIN DYNASTY, VIII. ANCIENT ROUND-MONEY {continued). Tsin Dynasty ^ IE Five rulers, from 255 to 206 r,.c. The state of Tsin, which for two centuries had gradually by succes-sive encroachments assumed the leading position among tlie ChineseStates then under the honorific authority of the Kings of Tchou, had re-duced these rulers to a mere shadow of their former greatness. In 256 Nan Wang j^ |^g 3^, the last of them, surrendered his dominionsto Tchao Siang Wang jjg ^ J the Prince of Tsin, then in the 53rdyear of his reign. The struggle against the other Chinese States con-tinued, and lasted specially with the semi-Chinese Southern State ofTsu, whose centre was in Hupeh, and which wa

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