Watch List notes:

WARRING STATES: Ba & Shu States, AE bridge money (26.86g), 300-225 BC, Opitz p.352, 136mm, dragon-tiger (chíhu) type, with line-drawn design, holed twice in the center as made, a gorgeous and hefty example with parts of the original bronze surface still visible, EF-AU, ex Charles Opitz Collection. Though colloquially known as "bridge money", these bronze pieces are formally known only as funerary objects designed to imitate the stone chimes of the bianqing. Bridge Money pieces have now been dated to circa 306-221 BC and are accepted by many - but not all - Chinese numismatists as actual coins of Ba and Shu States during the Warring States period.

Estimate: 120-160 USD