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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2954847, member: 51347&quot;]Very nice AE Knife [USER=75799]@Loong Siew[/USER] !&nbsp; Super looking and nice point.&nbsp; The obv patina is a cool contrast around the characters to the green background.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am a very casual collector of Chinese History, purely due to my extensive travels there.&nbsp; I have only ONE Knife Money, and I poorly photographed it.&nbsp; I reckon I have it &quot;just to have it.&quot;&nbsp; But it IS kinda fun to say &quot;Yeah, I was in that area where that knife was cast 2500 years ago.&quot; (Same thought for many of my other Chinese monies.):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]722306[/ATTACH] </p><p>China Ming Knife money 400-220 BCE bronze Hartill 4.42-3</p><p><br /></p><p>I rely on Hartill for my attributes, but cannot read Chinese.&nbsp; I know a few modern characters, but no ancient.&nbsp; I thought it interesting that the size of the drawings of a coin in my book is very much the size of the coin.&nbsp; So, I can lay the coin onto the diagram and have a good idea to size.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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