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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 2498359, member: 78244&quot;]Well, part of one that is. But since I paid next to nothing for it, I&#039;m not complaining. You can occasionally find the round head separated from the blade (I have my eye on one from the same seller), but you almost never find the blade itself. The head was often cut off to be made as a charm or a smaller denomination, or just to spite Wang Mang&#039;s coinage itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was excavated from a Wang Mang hoard in an ancient Chinese canal.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was a value-500 (Wu Zhu) coin. The entire inscription would have read &quot;Qi Dao Wu Bai,&quot; but only &quot;Wu Bai&quot; (500) are visible. Wang Mang used this coin, and the much-rarer value-5000 coin, to eradicate the wealth of the nobility, a move which, in turn, destroyed the economy of China and caused a third of China&#039;s population to die of starvation.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]529764[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]529765[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an intact specimen I&#039;m eying for comparison.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]529766[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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