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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 3973150, member: 81887&quot;][USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER]: Your coin is correctly labeled, Hartill 16.150, of Jia You.&nbsp; Your coin, however, has the characters arranged clockwise (top, right, bottom, left) rather than the usual top, bottom, right, left, and the inscription is Jia You Yuan Bao rather than Jia You Tong Bao.&nbsp; To confuse things further, your coin uses Li script, which is subtly different than standard script.&nbsp; This variation in character arrangement, wording of the legend, and script style helps to produce a huge number of varieties in Chinese coins, and this is especially evident in the Song period.&nbsp; (Hartill lists over 500 varieties for the Northern Song, and over 900 for the Southern Song, though to be fair the Southern Song also add mintmarks, year numbers, and sometimes marks of value to the mix.)&nbsp; One could easily specialize in Song coins and still build an extensive collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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