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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2641819, member: 51347&quot;]<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/goto/post?id=2641570#post-2641570" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/goto/post?id=2641570#post-2641570">↑</a></p><p><span style="color: #b30000">&quot;Wow, @@Alegandron! Very nice.</span></p><p><span style="color: #b30000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #b30000">I have a burning question about one of them... the Sui dynasty piece with the hanger (I also have one). Are these really Sui dynasty, and what&#039;s the evidence for this? Hartill lists them just before the Tang, but just as unknown North &amp; South Dynasties. (He says only 10.26 belongs to the Sui.) I&#039;d *really* like this to be provably Sui, since the Sui was essentially the first stage of the Tang.</span></p><p><span style="color: #b30000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #b30000">BTW, for those (like me) who need to have some knowledge of the history to really like the coin, the History of China podcast is great, given how little we westerners tend to know about Chinese history.</span></p><p><span style="color: #b30000"><br /></span></p><p><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-china/id741606139?mt=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-china/id741606139?mt=2" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #b30000">https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-china/id741606139?mt=2</span></a></p><p><span style="color: #b30000">Click to expand...</span></p><p><span style="color: #b30000">I think that date is an educated guess based on the style. There were a lot of experimental coins during the very turbulent North and South Dynasties period, so he naturally assumed that they were from then. However, they have been discovered in Western Han tombs, meaning that they were made about 700-800 years prior to originally thought. If you want a coin from the Sui, then you will have to get a Wu Zhu with an hourglass &quot;Wu&quot; and a vertical bar to the left, like this one:&quot;</span></p><p><br /></p><p>So, in your opinion [USER=78244]@TypeCoin971793[/USER] , what do you think mine is?&nbsp; Dates, attributes, etc?&nbsp; Sounds like this is a tough nut to crack...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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