Big fountain five hundred : Da quan wu bai.
Three kingdoms period (AD 220-280).
Wu kingdom.
Casting era : AD 236 - The year of fall of Wu kingdom (AD 280).
Emperor of Wu kingdom : Da di, Sun Quan.
Obverse : Chinese character inscription : Da quan wu bai.
From observer's point of view, up : Da (= big), down : quan (= fountain.
This character means also "coin". Double meaning.), right : wu
(= five), left : bai (= hundred). Therefore this inscription means that
this big fountain coin deserves five hundred pieces of usual coins. A usual
coin in this period is Wu zhu (= five zhu) coin. Hemming line.
Reverse : Hemming line.
8.7g.
D-30.1mm.
G.
Sold.
Shuichi Yamashita
1696, Aoyagi
Ichihara-shi, Chiba
299-0102, JAPAN
E-mail : ge6128@i.bekkoame.ne.jp