Qing Dynasty. Kiang Nan (Jiang Nan) 江南 Province 戊戌 1898 year. AU This Kiangnan dollar featured the old bug-eyed Dragon characteristic of the...
The multilingual ones are much scarcer to find and pops up once after long time and very briefly too. The long Sogdian scripted pieces are more...
Thanks guys. Medoraman yours is a pretty well taken picture. Can see the tamgha and Sogdian script very well.
I believe we should put this to a rest nevertheless. As a specialized collector on this area, I know my facts, sources and enough experiences with...
Gary. Very well. The auction house is noble numismatics from Australia. The largest there and member of IAPN. They are the equivalent of Heritage...
Hahaha.. they are really interesting.... I only then other hand talk more on Chinese :D
Good!! We should start getting people more aware and appreciate them. The silk Road bears a lot of mysterious and romantic aura of a lost...
Bukhara. Circa 7th century. Sino-Sogdian AE unit Featuring the Bukharan Tamgha and Sogdian scripts. One with the Chinese characters 元 and...
And THCOINS. .. that's the first time I saw such a cool archaic coin with a striking horse motif
I'll post an interesting Bukharan Piece in a moment
Very nice medoraman. . I saw these Tamgha Kai Yuan before but unfortunately did jot end up successfully getting one. As for the Persian Achaemenid...
Thank you. I was pretty exhilarated myself when I first got it recently. . I felt I could never fill a hole in the series without a piece.
Hello medoraman, please call me Goh. Yes. We should connect more. My collection of Silk Road included Bukharan, Sogdian, Kushan, Chach,...
They are very interesting. I collect pre-iIslamic silk Road coins as a theme as well. They are truly an interesting and fascinating field
Buddhist Kingdom of Khotan (circa 1st - 3rd Century AD). Copper 6 Zhu (铢)。 The Sino-Kharosthi script coin belonged to a lost ancient Buddhist...
As for quality of coins required/expected to being as poor as the images shown in Baidu, please check here (I'm Chinese unfortunately)....
Gary.. Before you pass judgement please note that your appraisal is incorrect. Hartill listed 2 varieties. But other Chinese calligraphy books...
Thanks. Glad u liked it
Thanks :)
China's economy was largely based off the silver standard. All trade with China must be exchanged with silver. As a trivia, the Chinese word for...
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