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Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth cent. B. C., to A. D. 621. including the series in the Britis Museum (1892)

Terrien de Lacouperie, d. 1894, Poole, Reginald Stuart, 1832-1895, British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals · London : The Trustees; [etc., etc.] · leaf 444

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nt-masters. All the metallic currency formerly in AXCiEXT norxD-^roxEV. 3G1 use was ■nithdrawn, and brought to tlie Shang-lin Mint, to be meltedand re-cast; and all money not issued by that mint was consideredillegal. In the impossibility of suppressing the few false coiners whostill remained, the… … No mark. A riin around thesf|uare hole. The peculiarity of the early issues of tins cash is, that on the obverse the centralhole has no rim. 316. Same legendas preceding.

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