image

Previous Lot Next Lot

Auction: CSS118B - China Banknotes and Coins
Lot: 1282

China, Sixteen Kingdoms Period, bronze 1 cash, 'Liang Zao Xin Quan', 317-376, from the state of Fomer Liang, 1.01x18.3mm, weighs 1.43g, with patination, about uncirculated, scarce. From a period of great instability and casted crudely, it is also the first type of coin in Chinese history to have its national name inscribe on


五胡十六國時代前涼涼造新泉,18.3x1.01毫米, 重1.43克,銹色斑斑,AU品相。涼造新泉是以國號為名的第一例方孔圓錢,但鑄造不精,問世至今1700餘年,存世不多