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Auction 37  11-14 Jun 2020
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Lot 1413

Starting price: 850 USD
Price realized: 20 000 USD
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QING: Tong Zhi, 1862-1874, AE palace cash (28.39g), Board of Revenue mint, Peking, H-26.3, 43mm, "curtain-hanging money", tian xia tai ping (heaven below great peace), EF. Palace cash may or may not be considered a type of amulet. These were made as New Year's gifts to people in the Imperial Palace, usually eunuchs and guards, who often hung the smaller ones below lamps and the larger ones below curtains. Hartill, in "Qing Cash" (Royal Numismatic Society, 2003), agrees they were handed out as gifts in the Palace, but only upon the establishment of each new reign title, and were wrapped in red cloth.

Estimate: 1,000-1,500 USD
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