Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
April 2018 Hong Kong Auction - Sess. A-E 2-4 Apr 2018
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CHINA. Pattern 10 Cash, ND (1912-18). PCGS MS-62 BN Secure Holder.
CL-MG.62; CCC-688; W-971 (A-1); KM-Pn5; Duan-3098. A pattern ten cash with the portrait of would-be emperor Yuan Shih-Kai. Woodward (p. 123) quotes early numismatist Guiseppi Ros as follows: "The two coins are samples from the Wuchang mint, where an issue of them was being prepared, but was suspended after the departure of then vice president Li for Peking. The die for no. 972 was engraved by Wang Shao-Hsien and that for no. 971 by Chu Tsü-fang. Of the latter a few specimens were stamped and presented to officials, but the former was not approved, owing, I was told, to the disproportion in the size of the decoration worn by Yüan Shih-K'ai." Well struck with smooth glossy surfaces displaying a pleasing mahogany patina with a few hints of red. PCGS MS-62 BN Secure Holder.
From the Q. David Bowers Collection.
CL-MG.62; CCC-688; W-971 (A-1); KM-Pn5; Duan-3098. A pattern ten cash with the portrait of would-be emperor Yuan Shih-Kai. Woodward (p. 123) quotes early numismatist Guiseppi Ros as follows: "The two coins are samples from the Wuchang mint, where an issue of them was being prepared, but was suspended after the departure of then vice president Li for Peking. The die for no. 972 was engraved by Wang Shao-Hsien and that for no. 971 by Chu Tsü-fang. Of the latter a few specimens were stamped and presented to officials, but the former was not approved, owing, I was told, to the disproportion in the size of the decoration worn by Yüan Shih-K'ai." Well struck with smooth glossy surfaces displaying a pleasing mahogany patina with a few hints of red. PCGS MS-62 BN Secure Holder.
From the Q. David Bowers Collection.
Ex: R. B. White.
Estimate: $3000.00- $5000.00