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Auction 20  18-20 September 2014
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Lot 733

Starting price: 270 USD
Price realized: 800 USD
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HSIN: Wang Mang, 7-23 AD, AE 'key money' (18.86g), H-9.13, qi dao wu bai (knive, value five hundred) in archaic script, crude Fine to VF, ex Nicholas Rhodes Collection. These knife coins are sometimes referred to as key coins, and are very well cast, although on the value 500 pieces, the characters on the ring handle are sometimes weak. The edges are usually finished with slightly coarse file marks around the outside (as this example has), but with much finer file marks on the leading edge of the knife blade (as if the knife had been sharpened). A similar example sold in Stack's Bowers & Ponterio Sale 165, Lot 20599, for $600.

Estimate: 380- 450 USD
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