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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Loong Siew, post: 2241118, member: 75799&quot;]State of Chu (楚）- Warring States Period. Circa 4-3rd century BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>AE Ghost face money. Also known as Ant Nose Money.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were regarded as imitation cowrie coins in circulation during the time. The most commonly ones are like this where the character 咒 was inscribed on. Some attributed it as representing a human face like a totem but also exists with other inscriptions exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Warring States Period heralded a period of chaos where the various autonomous states fought over supremacy and marked the fall of the Ancient Zhou 周 Dynasty. The various states struggled for hegemony over each other until the emergence of the Qin state who&#039;s force finally united all the various states into the first unified empire, the Qin Dynasty under the first Emperor of China Shi Huangdi. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]442048[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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