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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TuckHard, post: 8135895, member: 102653&quot;]A decent browse of acsearch suggests to me that there aren&#039;t any ancient coins with bats on them. It&#039;d be cool to be proven wrong on that, however. I do have this Chinese charm (token/medallion) that depicts a bat. The charms were first cast in the 18th century during the Qing Dynasty&#039;s reign of China. My example is most probably a modern recast (although one well published author has told me he believes it is an original period piece) but I do still think it&#039;s very interesting and cool to see a pictorial design on a Chinese type coin. Unfortunately, I don&#039;t really understand the symbolism too much but it&#039;s worth looking into someday.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1417678[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Qing Dynasty of China</p> <p style="text-align: center">c. 18-19th Century (Probably a modern recast)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Brass charm | 45mm wide</p> <p style="text-align: center">Obv: <i>Qu Xie Jiang Fu</i>, translated as &quot;Expel Evil, Send down Happiness&quot;</p> <p style="text-align: center">Rev: A bat flying above a demon to the right being scared by Zhong Kui (a great chaser of demons) left</p> <p style="text-align: center">Ref: See Z#<a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=136948" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=136948" rel="nofollow">136948</a>, <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=136944" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=136944" rel="nofollow">136944</a>, <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=187308" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=187308" rel="nofollow">187308</a>, also <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7323519" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7323519" rel="nofollow">SARC A-38, Lot 1075</a></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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