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China, Han Dynasty, (226 B.C. - 220 A.D.), bronze gilt hand mirror, 118mm, (280 g), round shape, decorated with circles, swirls and loops. A well preserved, extremely fine example, very rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $500
China, a small group on cards described, include Warring States knife money (400-220 B.C.), (Hartill 4.43, Sch. 52-61, TFP 342); another cash (Hartill 7.6, Sch.79-82, TFP 385); Western Han Dynasty cash (c.73-49 B.C.), (Hartill 8.9); other issues of Northern Sung Dynasty, 1068-1085, 1094-7, (Hartill 16.235, 16.311); Southern Sung Dynasty, Li Zong, 1234-1236, (Hartill 17.743), rare; Ming Dynasty, Yung Lo, 1403-1425, (Hartill 20.121). Fine - very fine, some with hoard patination. (7)
Estimate $250
SOLD $220
China, Tang Dynasty, (c.619-907 A.D.), bronze hand mirror, 115m, (305 g), in the shape of an eight-petal sunflower, decorated with flowers and insects, with four fantasy animals with riders. A well preserved, extremely fine example, very rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $850
China, Sung Dynasty or earlier, offical bronze seal (53.73 g), 24x24x21 mm, fitted with a loop handle. Some green oxidation, otherwise very fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
China, Northern Sung Dynasty, a selection of issues described on two large cards, issues from (960 - 1117), all described for ruler and title of period for each ruler. Mostly fine. (27)
Estimate $50
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China, Ming Dynasty, assorted cash as two aggregates from a Ming Dynasty shipwreck, each aggregate with 10 or more cash of the Ming Dynasty from the ship wreck discovered in the Makassar Strait off the coast of Sulawesi, in Indonesia, (description with lot), lot includes a quantity of cash described with descriptive texts (@50), loose coins etc. Mostly fine and interesting. (lot)
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
China, Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty, AE cash of K'ang Xi, (1662 - 1722), Board of Revenue and Board of Works mint, (M.3731-3734). Mostly fine - very fine. (35)
Estimate $150
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China, Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty (1644-1911), Emperor Wen Zong (1851-1861), Fujian Province, 44mm, twenty cash coin, Fuzhou Fujian mint, (39.37 g), large size with extra characters on the reverse (calculated weight 1 liang), (Hartill 22.786, Sch. -, TFP 2521). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $300
SOLD $180
China, Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty (1644-1911), Emperor Wen Zong (1851-1861), Fujian Province, 64mm, one hundred cash coin, Fuzhou Fujian mint, (120 g), large size with extra weight characters on rim, (Hartill 22.796, Sch. -, TFP 2529). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $300
SOLD $450
China, Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty (1644-1911), Emperor Wen Zong (1851-1861), Fujian Province, 64mm, one hundred cash coin, Fuzhou Fujian mint, (120 g), large size with extra weight characters on rim, (Hartill 22.796, Sch. -, TFP 2529). Good fine and rare.
Estimate $250
SOLD $240
China, Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty (1644-1911), Emperor Wen Zong (1851-1861), 48mm, one hundred cash coin, Kaifeng and others, Henan Mint, with mint 'Boo He' to left and right on the reverse, (46.79 g), (Hartill 22.849 [R10], Sch. -, TFP 2493). Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
China, Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty (1644-1911), Emperor Wen Zong (1851-1861), 65mm, one hundred cash coin, Xi'an, Shaanxi mint, (58.16 g), (Hartill 22.959 [R11], Sch. -, TFP 2500). Very fine, very scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
China, Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty (1644-1911), Emperor Wen Zong (1851-1861), 48 mm., AE one hundred cash coin, Zhili Mint, (45.87 g), issued 1854-1855, (Hartill 22.1063, Sch. -, TFP 2534). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $120
SOLD $80
China, Chihli Province, under Empire, silver dollar, Pei Yang Arsenal type, year 23 (1897), (26.93 g), (KM.Y.65.1). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $150
SOLD $600
China, Chihli Province, under Empire, silver dollar, Pei Yang Arsenal type, year 25 (1899) (26.71 g), (KM.Y.73). Bright, very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $320
China, Chingkiang, under Empire, Hsuan tung, year 3, silver twenty cents, rev. dragon, (KM.Y.29). Brilliant, extremely fine or better.
Estimate $750
SOLD $4,200
China, Fengtien Province, under Empire, silver dollar, Yr 24 (1898), (26.80 g), (KM.Y.87). Lightly toned, extremely fine, rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $3,200
China, Fukien Province, under Empire, ten cents, issued 1903-1908, (KM.Y.103.3); Yunnan, Republic, silver fifty cents, not dated, c.1911-1915, (KM.Y.257). First coin good very fine, second very fine/fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
China, Honan Province, under Empire, general issue, pattern specimen or trial strike of a twenty cash CD1909 issue, struck on large extended flan with sharp edge (27.18g), (KM.Pn3; CCC537; MCCC HON 33). Good very fine and extremely rare.
Estimate $5,000
SOLD $3,500
China, Hupeh Province, under Empire, silver tael (1904), Kuang-hsu, (37.29g), (KM.Y.128.1). Extremely fine, scarce.
Estimate $750
SOLD $12,500
China, Hupeh Province, under Empire, Hsuan T'ung, silver dollar, not dated (issued 1909-1911), rev. facing dragon (KM.Y.131). Brilliant, extremely fine, rare as such.
Estimate $400
SOLD $920
China, Hupeh Province, under Empire, Hsuan T'ung, silver dollar, not dated (issued 1909-1911), rev. facing dragon (KM.Y.131). Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
China, Hupeh Province, under Empire, one sen brass, dated 1908, (KM.Y.7j). Nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
China, Hupeh Province, under Empire, ten cash (1902-5) (KM.Y.102a.5) (2); Republic, Kwang Tung, twenty cents (1929) (KM.Y.426) (2). Very fine - extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $100
China, Provincial issue, Hunnan Province, copper ten cash, ND (C.1902-06), obverse 'Hu-nan ten cash' (KM.Y112.10), another with die rotation anticlockwise 90 degrees, weak on part of obverse and reverse; Republic, copper issues of ten and twenty cash, the ten cash (15) are of the standard coinage type with two flags no inner circle, (c.1912), KM.Y301; others with inner circles around flags, (c.1920), KM.Y306 (12); Honan, (c.1913-4), KM.Y392; Hunan, twenty cash (7) (c.1919), KM.Y400. Fine - good very fine. (38)
Estimate $120
SOLD $100
China, Kiang Nan Province, under Empire, silver dollar (1904) (KM.145a.12). Weakly struck in legend, bright and good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
China, Kirin Province, under Empire, silver dollar, dated 1899, (KM.Y.183). Toned, good very fine.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $3,400
China, Kirin Province, under Empire, silver dollar, obv. beady eyed dragon symbol in centre, cd 1903, (KM.Y.183a.2). Lightly toned, very fine and very scarce.
Estimate $300
SOLD $500
China, Kwangtung Province, under Empire, silver twenty cents, undated (1890-1908) (KM.Y.201). With full mint bloom brilliant uncirculated.
Estimate $450
SOLD $440
China, Sinkiang, Kwang Hsu, as an issue of Rebel Coinage of Yakub Beg (1864-1877), silver half miscal with Turki inscriptions of crude style, dated [12]91? with reversed number 9, (KM.C.37.1 variety). Fine - very fine.
Estimate $100
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