RARE 700 - 221 BC CHINESE BRONZE CHU STATE ANT-NOSE GHOST FACE MONEY & COA

Description

ANCIENT CHINA -
ZHOU
(
CHOU
) DYNASTY (1045-256/221 BC)
EASTERN
ZHOU
ERA (770-256 BC): WARRING STATES PERIOD (476/403-221 BC)
PRINCIPALITY (STATE) OF
LIANG
(350-220 BC) (CITY STATE OF
YUAN
) (MODERN GANSU/SHAANXI REGION)
EARLY CAST BRONZE RING-MONEY -
BAN (PAN) LIANG
ROUND HOLE CASH COIN
OBV:
EARLY SIMPLE GEOMETRIC CHARACTERS FOR "YUAN (PLACE NOT DENOMINATION)" RIGHT; ROUND HOLE IN CENTER;  LEFT.
REV:
BLANK; CASTING MOLD STEM CLIP 3 MM PROJECTION UPPER RIGHT.
THIS EARLY RUDIMENTARY COIN WAS CAST IN THE BRONZE AGE DURING THE TIME OF THE
EASTERN
ZHOU
DYNASTY
, DURING THE PERIOD KNOWN AS "
THE WARRING STATES
". IN THAT ERA, CHINA WAS A PATCHWORK OF FEUDAL STATES, AND THE
ZHOU
EMPEROR WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A FIGUREHEAD. THE
PRINCIPALITY OF
LIANG
, RULED BY A COUNT, WAS ONE OF THE SUB-STATES. RECORDS SAY THAT THE
STATE OF
LIANG
WAS CONQUERED BY DUKE
MIN
OF
QIN
IN 641 BCE (DURING THE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD 771-476) AND ANNEXED. THE "COUNTY" WAS EITHER HIERCHICALLY SUBSUMED, LATER REABSORBED INTO ANOTHER STATE, OR AT SOME POINT INDEPENDENT UNITIL
QIN SHI HUANG
(259-210 BC), FIRST EMPEROR OF CHINA, UNIFIED THE KINGDOMS.
TWO THEORIES ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THESE COINS ARE THAT THEY DEVELOPED FROM THE RING HANDLES OF KNIFE MONEY OR, MORE LIKELY, FROM THE DISC HANDLES OF BRONZE AND EARTHENWARE VESSELS. THEY ARE PRECURSORS OF THE
BAN LIANG
SQUARE HOLE TYPE CASH COINS AND CIRCULATED IN THE SAME AREAS AS SPADE AND KNIFE MONEY FROM AROUND 350 BC.
CONTAINS 7.9 MM OF BRONZE
41 MM IN DIAMETER
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