Watch List notes:

WARRING STATES: Ba & Shu States, LOT of 23 AE bridge money, 300-225 BC, a wide variety of types, styles, and sizes, most with single piercing for hanging, but all intact (18), all encrusted, plus a few broken ones (5), average quality examples, a wonderful study lot! retail value $1000, lot of 23 items. Though colloquially known as 'bridge money,' these bronze 'bridges' 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: 500-700 USD