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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 751851, member: 9204&quot;]I know some forum member posted an odd piece of metal they got in a lot of Chinese coins from onlylinda on ebay. I lost the thread, but found an attribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>Its&nbsp; bronze &quot;model-cicada money.&quot; This one is the latest in date and most stylized. Of course, modern scholars don&#039;t believe this to be currency at all. Yuquan and Hartill consider it to be a funerary object. </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/Ardatirion/Untitled.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>Ramsden, H. A. <i>Model-Insect Money of China</i>. (Japan: Numismatic &amp; Philatelic Printers), page 15.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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