Catalogue
China, copies of regular issue cash of the Qing Dynasty cash. These coins although made of brass are much lighter (1.4 g), than normal issues (c.3-4 grams), many on thin flans, some are holed. The coin types copied cover almost all Qing rulers and many mints. Mostly very good - very fine. (50)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
China, Qing (Ch'ing) Dynasty (1644-1911), silver drum shaped sycee ingot, Szechuen Province pure silver ingot, ten taels or 9.5 ounce local tax ingot type (339 g.), with one block of Chinese characters, "Fu Shun Xian" meaning (Fushun County) no year noted, also with additional incuse character, (cf.Cribb type XL.479 (cf.Pl.48) for similar size and characters). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $2,600
China, Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), late empire period, Guizhou Province small round ingots Cribb LI, Group B, silver as half a sphere of 1.2 ounce (36.25 gs), bank ingot cast at the Guizhou Provincial Bank, 'Gui Zhou Guan Qian Ju' (Guizhou Official Coin Bureausavings bank) framed within a linear rectangle, as a block of three characters, (Cribb 653 [Pl.56] for similar example). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $7,500
China, Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), silver drum shaped sycee ingot (375g) (nine and a half ounce local ta ingot, Sichuan Province (c1910) (cf Cribb 436 and 439). Very fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,900
China, Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), silver boat shaped sycee ingot as a plain boat shaped sycee ingot without any characters, Shandong Province, half ounce (19.45 g), cf.Cribb XXVII Group A; (Cribb 268 [Pl.41] and 288 [Pl.42]). Very fine and scarce.
Estimate $50
SOLD $180
China, Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), late empire period, Guizhou Province small round ingots Cribb LI, Group B, silver as half a sphere of 1.2 ounce (36.25 gs), bank ingot cast at the Guizhou Provincial Bank, 'Gui Zhou Guan Qian Ju' (Guizhou Official Coin Bureausavings bank) framed within a linear rectangle, as a block of three characters, (Cribb 653 [Pl.56] for similar example). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $7,000
China, Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), late empire period, Guizhou Province small round ingots Cribb LI, Group B, silver as half a sphere of 1.2 ounce (36.25 gs), bank ingot cast at the Guizhou Provincial Bank, 'Gui Zhou Guan Qian Ju' (Guizhou Official Coin Bureausavings bank) framed within a linear rectangle, as a block of three characters, (Cribb 653 [Pl.56] for similar example). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $8,500
China, Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), late empire period, Guizhou Province small round ingots Cribb LI, Group C, silver as half a sphere of 0.75 ounce (25.41 g), bank ingot cast at a savings bank, 'Shang Jie Tang' (savings bank) framed within a linear rectangle, as a block of three characters, (Cribb 657 [Pl.56] for similar example). Fine and rare.
Estimate $80
SOLD $4,000
China, Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), silver slab shaped sycee ingot as a Yunnan Province three-stamped slab ingot with additional central circular stamp, this an added mark, with curved ends, similar to type Yunnan Province three identical sets of stamps on a slabed silver ingot, three taels or three type, (100.5 g), (cf.Cribb type LXVIII, group D, p.259, Pl.63 for larger similar type). Lightly toned, good very fine and rare.
Estimate $600
SOLD $950
China, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), silver boat shaped sycee ingot (270g) (c1880-1911). Nearly very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $1,100
China, a large copper square 96mms square uniface plaque with two seals and 16 raised characters within a rectangular raised border 11-12 cms wide, probably 19th century or later. Good very fine, rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
China, cash mostly 1600-1900, from the Palmer River find (approx 40), loose cash (4), two large charms. Fine. (46)
Estimate $200
SOLD $360
China, Empire, Kuang Hsu, (1875-1908), copper five cash, (3.73 g), Tianjin Central (Tientsin) mint, dated CD issue 1905, rev. imperial dragon left in clouds, Tai Ch'ing T'ung Pi legend (KM.Y.9). Good very fine, very scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $380
China, Qing Dynasty cash (46), Republic, ten cash (4), another engraved, Sun Yat Sen, 1936 fen, 5 & 10 cents also photo album of world notes (76), mostly China. Fair - extremely fine. (129)
Estimate $150
SOLD $320
China, Empire, general issue, silver twenty cents, (1908) (KM.Y.13). Cleaned good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $440
China, Empire, general issue, silver dollar (1908) (KM.Y.14). Extremely fine with mint bloom.
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $8,500
China, Empire, general issue, silver dollar (1908) (KM.Y.14). Some adhesion, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $900
China, Empire, general issue silver dollar (1908) (KM.Y.14). Brown adhesion, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $1,000
China, Empire, Board of Revenue, Peking mint, collector's copy pattern silver tael (37.21g) (1903) 29th year of Kuang Hsu (KM.Pn295; Kann 927). Good very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $320
China, Empire, Chingkiang central mint, Tientsin, under Hsuen Tung (1908-1911), silver dollar issued in the third year (1911) (KM.Y.31). Two small chop marks on reverse side, good very fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $700
China, Empire, Central Mint, Tientsin, silver dollar yr 3 (1911), (KM.Y31). With brown adhesion and oxidisation, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $900
China, Empire, Chihli Province, silver dollar, yr 34 (1908) (KM.Y73.2). Toned very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $360
China, Empire, Chihli Province, silver dollar, 34th yr (1908) (KM.Y73.2). Some brown dirt adhesion, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $550
China, Empire, Chihli Province, silver dollar, yr 34 (1908) (KM.73.3). Nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,200
China, Empire, Hu Peh Province, silver dollar (1885-1907) (KM.Y127.1). Grey and brown tone, very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $340
China, Empire, Kiang nan, ten cents, cd 1899, (KM.142a.2). Good very fine, scarce.
Estimate $250
SOLD $240
China, Empire, Kiang nan Province, silver dollar (1898) (KM.145a.1). Good very fine.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $950
China, Empire, Kiang nan Province, silver dollar (1900) (KM.145a.4). Extremely fine with mint bloom, scarce in this condition.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $2,000
China, Empire, Kiang nan Province, silver dragon dollar (1905) (KM.Y145a.17). Nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $2,500
SOLD $3,800
China, Empire, Kwangtung, ten cents, nd (1890-1900), (KM.200). About uncirculated with proof-like mirror surface.
Estimate $200
SOLD $2,200