Watch List notes:

CHINA: CHARMS: AE charm (28.62g), CCH-1861, 51mm, fu shou yan chang (good fortune and longevity for a long time) // "Star Official" (Xing Quan), also known as the "Primal God" (Yuan Shen) or "Primal God of the Northern Dipper" (Bei Dou Yuan Shen). The Chinese believe that this "star god" controls the life and fate of an individual. An individual needs to worship his star god for protection and to avoid misfortune. To the left of the round hole is a "cloud" with an "ox" in the middle. This particular charm was, therefore, intended to be a good luck charm for people born in the year of the ox which is one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, several casting errors in planchet, F-VF. This Daoist (Taoist) charm is distinctive because the inscription is written in both Daoist magic writing and Chinese characters on the obverse. Each magic writing character has a Chinese character next to it. It is believed that the magic script characters have the same meaning as the Chinese characters with which they are paired. Likely cast in the Song dynasty.

Estimate: 100-150 USD