Lot 2214

Description

China, Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), silver slight boat shaped sycee ingots similar to type Shanxi Province Pure Silver Ingot, two taels or two ounce type, (61.2 and 49.2 grams), both with one rectangular block of Chinese characters as stamps within, (cf.Cribb 543 [Pl.52] for similar size and type); China, Post WWII, silver rectangular ingot 32.3 mm., (19.9 grams) value of one tael, made at the Kumming Mint or Central mint c.1945, obverse spade and KMO 398, 995.0 and characters, reverse three rows of five characters arranged horizontally; China, brass cast ingot 67 mm., (24.85 grams), 'Da Song Chun Hua year imperial grant exquisite silver' obverse five characters, reverse four characters arranged vertically (probably a modern copy); China, Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), forgery of silver kidney shaped sycee ingot, Shandong mint and cast at the Shandong factory, height 45mm., value of five mace, struck 19th-20th century, (18.30 grams), four charactyers and two gragons on obverse, several rows of characters on reverse, (Cribb F51 [Pl.71]. Very fine. (5)

Cribb records and illustrates a similar example of very similar type but height of 35mm as compared to 45mm of the last coin. Very fine and rare.