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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 768046, member: 19463&quot;]Many replies ago, you asked a question that bothered me to the point that I slowed adding more coins.&nbsp; How accurate are the divisions of Wu Zhu?&nbsp; Various books differ or gloss over fine divisions in different ways.&nbsp; Later Chinese coins bear characters that place them in a period within a ruler&#039;s reign but the early stuff is separated into variations by dots, bars around the hole and letter shapes.&nbsp; For example, I found ID for the two coins below to Xuan Di (top - rounded bottom left and wide right character) and Zhao Di (bottom - squared bottom on the left character and extended &#039;tabs&#039; on the right at top and bottom).&nbsp; Both share the bar above hole variation.&nbsp; Where I became unclear is why the attributor associates these characteristics with coins of that reign.&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/image/112890260.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Certainly Chinese history is extremely interesting and I enjoy having coins associated with some of the big names but I need to see more written on the process used to develop the chronology before I become a collector paying dollars for the dots.&nbsp; I also need to get a better feeling about how to separate Chinese cash from other imitative coins of neighboring lands.&nbsp; I&#039;m happy to have the few (50 or so) I have but it is part of my general world collection rather than a specialty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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