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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3002863, member: 76086&quot;]You did pretty good on the attribution, however, this particular type (though originally issued by Wang Mang) are now thought to be funerary coins produced specifically for burial.&nbsp; They are distinguished from the official issues by their reduced size and weight and crudeness of casting (thus the holes in your example).&nbsp; The most recent attribution has them as Eastern Han, minted between 25 and 75 AD.&nbsp; Gratzer and Fishman have them rated as &#039;scarce&#039; to &#039;rare&#039; though at the moment they are plentiful and more easily obtained than an official mint issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>And oh.&nbsp; You got the alignment correct![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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