I notice an friend selling this book. I knew he had put a lot of effort (many years) into learning Chinese cash coins and I greatly respect his opinion. I rarely deal with cash coins because of inexperience with them and that there are a lot of fakes out there. With my daughter being from HK I thought this would make a very nice heritage set. Book of 60 Northern Song cash coins dating between 960 and 1127 AD. All are different and all are identified. This isn’t a low-grade junk lot, so it would make a great starter collection of Chinese coins. Most of the reign titles and script styles are included. It cost me $120 shipped and I was very happy with the price of less than $2 each.
Wow.. Substantial.. and so well-organized. How do people get typewritten splits. Beauteous Maximus. Great price, imho.
Worth every cent! Now your daughter can have fun using Google Translate even though most of the characters are identical.
That is a great collection! My son loves cash coins and has quite a good sized collection. We had a lot of fun identifying them as well. I like how your flips look. Very professional.
thank you sir. Thats what im hoping to do with my daughter. Mostly Ive built a minted Chinese collection for her. If i can but these from good sources like this guy I surely will every time.
Actually she can speak and read Chinese. Just getting them off the phone or CPU is the trial. I just wanted something we might enjoy together.
Not sure how old your daughter is, buy my son is 10 and getting off screens is quite the challenge. Coins have been a great way to do that. Though we end up spending time online (together) researching and reading history together.
Yes, I had see many singles sell between 10-20 so I didnt look back plus knowing the seller helped. He stated he was told the coins were recovered in a river around Indonesia.
This looks like a great deal. I don't collect Chinese coins and I know next to nothing about them. Yet, I have quite a few, which were gifted to me some 12 years ago. I believe this is a Northern Song coin? Weight 8.6 gm Diameter: 34.8 Here is another possible Northern Song coin Weight: 3.66 g Diameter: 2.45 cm Here is another one Weight: 7.78 g Diameter: 30.5 mm
Here is something weird. The writing is obscured by encrustations. There are two very high relief Buddha (?) figures on the reverse. Diameter: 23mm Weight: 8.53 g According to my research, this is an early Northern Song (Chun Hua Yuan Bao) coin. Very interesting (if genuine)
If you search for "Chun Hua Yuan Bao" you will find exemplars. This one here on ebay is in my opinion not genuine: https://www.ebay.com/itm/123738804882 They are apparently also called "temple money" and some have been produced in gold: https://www.spink.com/lot/CSS3902234A
A charm is like a temple token. They were not actually coins but charms/tokens used in places like a for temple, for marriage or for luck.
Ok, thanks for the explanation. Perhaps it is a temple toke or charm then. It clearly seems to have some religious character.
