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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1538400, member: 19463&quot;]Regarding Ban Liangs and Chinese cash in general:&nbsp; It is hard for Western collectors to warm up to any significance of calligraphic varieties in a language they don&#039;t read.&nbsp; I would be more likely to see collecting them if there were some attachment to the varieties and date, place, ruler or anything but the catalogs list most with no reason for their existence.&nbsp; Even after we get to a point of recognizing some major characters and reading period names with some ability, it seems artificial to care about &#039;round bao&#039; or &#039;square bao&#039; which is a lot like asking me to care whether the Rome mint closed the top of their A&#039;s or not.&nbsp; I believe that is part of the reason that many of us get a few hundred cash and fail to see why to go further.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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