Lot 1196

Description

(China) Jianming Guqian Cidian, 1993, 785pp., published in China, over 2000 illustrations, hard bound with dust jacket. As new.

A catalogue of Chinese cash and early shaped coinage (spade, knife, shirt etc) priced in yuan for the several thousand illustrated coins, (Illustrations and indexes make easy the identification of the coins). It is easy to use particularly when other English based texts are used. Many cash and shaped coins not readily sourced in other similar publications are illustrated and priced in this book and consequently becomes a very useful companion to the other major Chinese language catalogue by Dr Ting Fu-Pao. Although the coins illustrated are not numbered, a page reference becomes the identifier.