Cloth coin with a flat head and sharp legs : Ping zhou.
Warring states period (475-221.BC).
Casting era : The late years of this period.
Zhao kingdom.
O : Chinese character inscription : Ping zhou.
From observer's point of view, right : Ping (= flat), left : zhou (= province).
"Ping zhou" is name of the city where this coin was made.
A region of Zhao kingdom - present Jie xiu prefecture of Shan xi province.
R : Chinese character inscription, under the right shoulder, yi (1)?, er
(2)?
5.9g.
53.0mm x 29.0mm.
F.
Sold.
Cloth coin with a flat head and sharp legs : Ping zhou.
Warring states period (475-221.BC).
Casting era : The late years of this period.
Zhao kingdom.
O : Chinese character inscription : Ping zhou.
From observer's point of view, right : Ping (= flat), left : zhou (= province).
"Ping zhou" is name of the city where this coin was made.
A region of Zhao kingdom - present Jie xiu prefecture of Shan xi province.
R : Chinese character inscription, from up to down : Shi wu (15).
5.9g.
55.0mm x 30.0mm.
VF.
Sold.
These both obverse and reverse inscriptions are turned inside out. If you
wish to show right inscriptions on a surface of a coin, you must inscribe
inside out inscriptions on a surface of the mold. But on this coin, the
right inscriptions were written on the mold. Therefore this coin has inside
out inscriptions (like a mirror image). Inside out inscriptions are rare.
Shuichi Yamashita
1696, Aoyagi
Ichihara-shi, Chiba
299-0102, JAPAN
E-mail : ge6128@i.bekkoame.ne.jp