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 81
of Luh-tai (S.-E. Tchihli), where it wasfound in 1050 b.c. by Wu Wang, founder of the Tchou dynasty. Thecommon and rather suggestive name for metallic currency was then ^tsiuen, source. Tcheng, second king of the Tchou dynasty, by theadvice of Tai Kung of Tsi, a sage from the eastern barbarians of… … Reverse.
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