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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 1982466, member: 42634&quot;]well, it&#039;s been a long time since i picked up a chinese coin.&nbsp; purchased this at a coin show several weeks ago, was labeled as a &quot;china wu cha cash&quot;.&nbsp; was only 5 bucks, so what the heck.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/eastern%20coins/102_5132_zps810eb5ee.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/eastern%20coins/102_5132_zps810eb5ee.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/eastern%20coins/102_5132_zps810eb5ee.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>china, western han dynasty</p><p>113-90 bc</p><p>emperor han wudi</p><p>wu zhu</p><p>hatril 8.8</p><p>25mm</p><p>3.4g</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>the &quot;hour glass&quot; symbol is the wu...the symbol on the left is the&nbsp; &quot;zhu&quot;.&nbsp; this means,&nbsp; &quot;5 grans&quot;, a grain being the weight of 100 grains of millet.</p><p>note bar above hole on the obverse, this means this coin is a &quot;shang lin san guan&quot; wu zhu, produced by the &quot;three offices of shang lin park&quot; ...the offices were coinage,</p><p>sorting copper, and price equalization. </p><p><br /></p><p>wudi is a posthumous name, (liu chi was his birth name) which means &quot;military leader&quot; or something like that.&nbsp; refers to his military expansion.</p><p><br /></p><p>here&#039;s some info on the type in general from my go to spot for all Chinese coin stuff..</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://primaltrek.com/charmcoins.html#jun_guo" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://primaltrek.com/charmcoins.html#jun_guo" rel="nofollow">http://primaltrek.com/charmcoins.html#jun_guo</a></p><p><br /></p><p>wudi at wikipedia..</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wu_of_Han" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wu_of_Han" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wu_of_Han</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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