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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 477

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74—281), with a partial decipherment of theAryan-Pali legend of the largest of the two. (1799) The smaller specimen lias on the Obverse. A horse to right, of non-Chinese stylo. Inscription entirely worn out. Reveere.4i ^ Pan kin. A corruptecl imitation of (117). (l7.)Da) The larger specimen is… … In the centre an oldform of ^ , for money, surroundedby the legend ; thewhole within a bor-der of labyrinthinepattern. ^ ? ? m — m n m ? ? Tchung yh Hang sze tchn.= ? ? worth one ounce four tchus. These sole representatives of a coinage issued by the Yueh-ti for their intercoursewith the Chinese,…

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