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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AnYangMan, post: 3473597, member: 87271&quot;]The opinions of someone moderatly familiar with coinage from the era:</p><p><br /></p><p>The Ban Liang looks good to me. Can’t fault it calligraphy-wise, not a big fan of the patina, but I do not see any immediate red flags. But you can’t be careful enough with these Ban Liang’s with additional characters….</p><p><br /></p><p>The patination and crystallisation on that Daji Wuzhu both good, but the type is not published and I highly doubt it is an official cast. Not sure. I do find the difference in patination between the Da and Zhu characters a bit odd.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Xu Zhu is in my opinion not genuine. This is mainly based on the calligraphy, which is different from all specimens I have seen. The Zhu is rendered more akin to a Western Han Shang Lin Wuzhu, much too even for it to be a Xu Zhu, where the character is much more uneven, the triangular component of the Jin radical is much more pointy and the Zhu shows less curvature. Xu is rendered in a different style when compared to most other Xu Zhu’s, where it is much less ‘square’ and less defined. I also find the difference between the wear on the characters strange. While the Zhu shows regular wear, covered over by a little bit of patina, the Xu is very crisp, with only the reddish encrustation covering it (which could easily have been faked). All genuine specimens I have ever seen (or at least those I considered genuine) also had a clear inner rim on the obverse. The overall patina looks good, so maybe a common Shanglin (without bar above the hole) Wuzhu with an added on or recut character? All in all, I feel relatively comfortable in at least putting some question marks next to this coin. Maybe the weight will provide some additional information?</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, I do not really specialise in this area (I prefer Warring states coinage), so you may want to take what I say with a pinch of salt. Maybe [USER=78244]@TypeCoin971793[/USER] has some additional opinions?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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