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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2757420, member: 76194&quot;]I&#039;m enjoying them a lot so far. I&#039;m going to order Hartill next. How does that catalog book compare to these?</p><p><br /></p><p>PS: An interesting thing I found out is that there are probably people with Wang Mang coins in their collections that are really Han private issues (designed to mimick Wang Mang coins) made for funerary purposes many decades after the death of Wang Mang.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you have to ask, if people hated his coins so much, why cast funerary versions of them to burry with their ancestors?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d imagine the answer has to be&nbsp; that if Han officials came through your door and found you casting Han coins for &quot;funeral purposes&quot; you were liable to get your head cut off for forgery if they didn&#039;t believe your story. But if they found you had casting molds of old discontinued coins from a previous emperor, it wasn&#039;t a big deal as they were no longer legal tender, and your excuse of &quot;funerary coins&quot; is more believable and you are liable to keep your head attached to your shoulders.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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