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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1982639, member: 26302&quot;]Nice representative cash Gil-Galad. In my mind, the ban liang, Wu Zhu, and Kai Yuan Tong Bao cannot be underestimated. They would be somewhat akin to Athenian owls, Alexander Tets and Roman denari. Three groundbreaking coins that forever changed what people thought of as money in China. As a plus, most collectors could pick up all three for $10-15 dollars, something that would be kind of tough to do with the western three important coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, I can tell by the style your Ban Liang is a later, smaller coin. For an Liang, though, size is always a very critical measurement. They started off much larger, and shrunk down to modern cash size over about 100 years. I have some around 42-44 mm, a size nearly impossible to find on the market today for a reasonable price, (authentic at least). I actually have issues at nearly every size in between as well, showing it was a gradual shrinkage, not 42mm one day and 24 mm the next.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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