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QING: Xuan Tong, 1909-1911, AE cash, Board of Revenue mint, Peking, H-22.1516, North branch mint, cast in 1909, one coin missing, thus nearly complete casting 'money tree' of 59 coins, EF, RRRR, ex Wéiduolìya Collection. This example is very similar to Lot 68 in the 1991 Singapore Spink-Taisei Auction 10. There were 23 money trees in that auction, all from the Mr. & Mrs. Byron White Collection. The only difference is that this example has three auspicious bats at the bottom of the tree and one at top, versus the opposite for the White Collection example. Another coin tree of Guang Xu with 58 coins sold in the Stack's Bowers & Ponterio Sale 174, Lot 21070 for $13,000; another similar to the Stack's item sold in Baldwin's in 2012 for $12,000. This example is much rarer and more complete than the previously mentioned examples and housed in a custom wood display case.
Estimate: 10,000- 14,000 USD