Lot 1221

Description

Schjoth, the currency of the far east (Chinese currency), The Schjoth Collection at the Numismatic Cabinet of the University of Oslo, Norway, London & oslo, original 1929 edition, 88pp., 132pls; Lockhart, James Haldane Stewart, Sir, The Stewart Lockhart collection of Chinese copper coins, Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1915, Royal Asiatic Society, North China Branch. Extra Volume no. 1, 2 + l + xv + 36 pp., 174 plates of illustrations, 31 1/2 cm.; 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. (4)

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.