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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;otlichnik, post: 5234372, member: 109731&quot;]Very nice!</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t make out the shape of the upper fork on the Zhu on OldWorldCoins&#039; example, but it has a nice very narrow Wu that should assist with identification of the variety.</p><p><br /></p><p>Alegandron, when I look at yours I see a rounded upper fork on the Zhu which would indicate that this is an Eastern Han Wu Zhu and not a Western Han example.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my own.&nbsp; It definitely has rounded upper forks on the Zhus and so is Eastern Han.&nbsp; Given its size - the impressions are 26 mm diameter -&nbsp; it is likely from the early Eastern Han era, probably circa later Emperor Guangwu Di or Emperor Ming Di (40-75 AD).&nbsp; I have tentatively attributed it as B4.1 from Gratzer and Fishman&#039;s &quot;One Thousand Years of Wu Zhu Coinage, 118 BC - AD 958&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>SC[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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