Big cloth deserves thousand : Da bu huang qian.
Xin Dynasty (AD 8-23).
Casting era : AD 10-14.
Emperor : Wang Mang.
O : Chinese character inscription : Da bu huang qian.
From observer's point of view, up right : Da (= big), up left : bu (= cloth),
down right : huang (= deserve), down left : qian (= thousand). Therefore
this inscription means that this big cloth coin deserves thousand pieces
of the smallest coin. The smallest coin in this period was "Xiao quan
zhi yi (small fountain deserves one)".
Center line and hemming line.
R : Center line and hemming line.
The center line goes through a hole in the head both on obverse and on
reverse.
13.6g.
57.2mm x 24.2mm.
F.
Sold.
Shuichi Yamashita
1696, Aoyagi
Ichihara-shi, Chiba
299-0102, JAPAN
E-mail : ge6128@i.bekkoame.ne.jp