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 82
(Coiroilocl.) yE. Weight 547. The usual thinness of metal in the specimens of this class precludes their practicalnse as tools, and shows them to be sham spades or shovels made exclusively for ex-change. The handle is still hollow, as in the genuine implements of husbandry, whichthey imitate. They…
Numismatics · Coins, Chinese
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