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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;otlichnik, post: 5338647, member: 109731&quot;]The Wu Zhu coins lasted until Wang Mang rebelled against the Western Han and set up his own dynasty - the Xin (7-23 AD) (used to be transliterated as Hs&#039;in).&nbsp; But as it didn&#039;t last beyond him it is more commonly called the Wang Mang Interregnum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mang introduced several short lived coin reforms - most of them extremely complex with many denominations.&nbsp; One in 7 AD, another in 9, another in 14.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Huo Chuan were the main denomination of his form of 14 AD and are by far his most common type.&nbsp; Thought they retained the weight and size of the Wu Zhus they had a different name on them - Huo Chuan for Wealth Coin or Money Coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>While Mang was defeated in 23 AD and replaced by the Eastern Han, who resumed casting the Wu Zhu.&nbsp; However, his Huo Chuan are so common that some scholars believe they may have continued to have been made as late the 40s AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>No actual Chinese cast coin has anything but characters on them.&nbsp; Similar objects exist with flowers or animals or people on them but they were charms or temple souvenirs and not real currently.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know why this is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly though as Chinese characters are pictograms or ideograms based originally on objects, in some ways there are pictures on Chinese coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are actually dozens of minor variations of the Huo Chuan based on whether it has dots or blobs on it, the form of the inner rims, the exact shape of the characters, etc.&nbsp; These appear to be maker symbols that indicated the mint or furnace where they way made and perhaps batches or issues, but the meaning of these details are lost to use today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is one of the two main types.&nbsp; The Chuan, on the left, lacks a long point at its top and so yours is Hartill 9.33 (also known as Schjoth 150).</p><p><br /></p><p>SC[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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