Jump to content

File:Huo Quan (Biscuit) - Scott Semans.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (1,113 × 569 pixels, file size: 208 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: WANG MANG 7 - 23 AD

PHOTO H# INSCRIPTION DETAILS PRICE

  9.1q   Da Quan Wu Shi: Early?   Heavy piece with good calligraphy but crude rims, including unfiled sprue. Could be earliest issue, or provincial, or even contemporary fake. 29.28mm, 7.81gm.     VF   $ 20.00

  9.1&   Da Quan Wu Shi: MOULD   Metal "ashtray type" four-coin mould, two up and two down, 361gm, 84.9x82mm.     Crusty but clear   $ 2,250.00

  9.6N   Da Quan Wu Shi: Error?   Too-heavy piece, reverse shows diagonal lines, especially in SE corner. Mould cracking, or halves not bound tightly enough?? 28.13mm, 9.46gm     VF   $ 35.00

  9.14B   Xiao Quan Zhi Yi   Value One, Variety: Large Zhiand sharper rim, 15.29mm, 0.80gm.     VF   $ 40.00

  9.29D   Spade: Value 1000   Da Bu Heng Qian VARIETY: No line above hole, Da arms down; SMALL characters. About 55-57mm tall x 24mm wide; 15.20gm     F-VF   $ 85.00

  9.30A   Spade: Value 25   Huo Bu Variety: Smooth, squared edges. 57-58x22mm; 15.71gm.     EF-UC, pale patina   $ 75.00

  9.30A   Spade: Value 25   Huo Bu Variety: Smooth, squared edges. 57-58x22mm; 15.98gm.     EF-UC, darker patina   $ 85.00

  9.30B   Spade: Value 25   Huo Bu Variety: Ridged edges, sometimes with flashing. 57-58x22mm; 17.68gm.     VF, slightly crusty   $ 75.00

  9.60C   Huo Quan: Biscuit   Early-Middle issue (large & thick, range 8-14gm). 10.0gm, 26.8mm.     AVF   $ 35.00

  9.64a   Huo Quan: No rim: Chicken Eye   Similar in fabric to Eastern Wu and Western Jin issues (c. 222-317 AD) and probably belonging to this period according to R. Doo. 12.7mm, 0.447g     FD668-669v, S-nl, HG220/3   $ 40.00

  9.70B   Bu Quan   Dashes at lower corners inner rim obverse, and open "bubble" above center rim.     EF-UC, light soil   $ 40.00

  5002   Charm: Da Quan Wu Shi   Rev: ?, Turtle?, Constellation, Branch?, 24.95mm, 3.15gm. Ca. Yuan Dynasty. Actual charms of the Wang Mang era are extremely rare. A similar piece (also Yuan-era) recently brought $600 18% in Steve Album sale #21, Lot 753, while two similar pieces on Chinese auctions failed to reach estimates in the $1000-2000 range.     VF   $ 550.00

  5005   Charm: Da Quan Wu Shi   Rev: Turtle, Constellation, Snake, Sword, 17.4mm, 2.15gm. Ca. Yuan Dynasty. Actual charms of the Wang Mang era are extremely rare. A larger piece (also Yuan-era) recently brought $600 18% in Steve Album sale #21, Lot 753.    

AEF   $ 250.00.
Date
Source ANCIENT CHINA 古錢 (CoinCoin.com).
Author Scott Semans

Licensing

This file comes from the Scott Semans World Coins (CoinCoin.com) website and is copyrighted.

The copyright holder of this file, has released this file under a Creative Commons license.
The license page of the source website reads (Internet Archive):
"CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE Unles{s} bylined, everything at this site is by Scott Semans and is covered under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Please use what you wish, but attribute to the author. For articles bylined by another or noted ©, please request permission before using and I will forward your request if possible."

w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Attribution: Scott Semans World Coins (CoinCoin.com)
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Captions

Coin Biscuit from Wang Mang

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

12 August 2018

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current05:22, 12 August 2018Thumbnail for version as of 05:22, 12 August 20181,113 × 569 (208 KB)Donald TrungUser created page with UploadWizard

The following page uses this file:

Metadata