Lot 1189

Description

Lockhart, J. H. Stewart. The currency of the farther East from the earliest times up to present day (1895), Volume I., A Description of the Glover Collection of Chinese, Annamese, Japanese, Corean coins; of coins used as Amulets: and Chinese Government and Private notes, 223 pp., Volume II. Plates of coins in Glover Collection, 200 plates, another Volume II with additional plates making 204 plates; Ting, Fu-Pao. Quan Zhi Ching Hua Lu = (A catalog of ancient Chinese coins), reprint of 1936 edition (c.1980), 240 plates (in Chinese); Wang, Y-ch'an. Early Chinese coinage, 1951, Numismatic notes and monographs, no. 122, viii + 254 pp., 55 plates, maps, 23 cm. Mostly fine, several scarce. (5)

Schjoth is one of the Standard English reference on Chinese coinage, profusely illustrated throughout with several thousand illustrations and often used as the reference for Chinese cash coins, Lockhart is another similar reference in English on these cash coins. Ting Fu Pao is the most widely recognised work on cash but is in Chinese.