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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3059170, member: 76086&quot;]Ju Mu or &#039;Chicken Eye&#039; coins are also frequently called E Yan, or &#039;Goose Eye&#039;.&nbsp; The most current research in China shows these to be funerary coins.&nbsp; They began use in the Western Han in the First century BC under the Emperor Wu Di.&nbsp; So far excavations of graves show none being buried or &#039;used&#039; after the Han, and nothing in Xin burials, so it is assumed they were used prior to Wang Mang.&nbsp; They are interesting, and typically range from roughly 10-13mm or so and averaging about half a gram.&nbsp; I have one myself, 11mm, .46 grams:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]767044[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I also have an example of the Qi Dao Wu Bai (cant find the photo, I&#039;d have re-shoot it), but with the lower &#039;key&#039; portion removed (erroneously so-called due to their resemblance to modern keys).&nbsp; This is something which is more common than complete examples which seems to indicate that the general public, while despising the reform, was indeed using it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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