Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth cent. B. C., to A. D. 621. including the series in the Britis Museum (1892) (14779586751)

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Title: Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth cent. B. C., to A. D. 621. including the series in the Britis Museum

Year: 1892 (1890s)

Authors: Terrien de Lacouperie, d. 1894 Poole, Reginald Stuart, 1832-1895 British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals

Subjects: Numismatics Coins, Chinese

Publisher: London : The Trustees (etc., etc.)

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

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rof. Percy Gardner, Litt. D., pp. 120,121, aiid plate xxv, 1 and 2. These coins are bilingual, Avritten inGreek on one side, and in the North-Tudian alphabet, called the Aryan-Pal i, on tlie otlier. Two specimens of their copper (not iron) coins, of different types,were procured by Sir T. Douglas Porsyth at Kliotan, in ChineseTurkistan (Journal of thx Boijal Geographical Society, vol. xlvii. p. 12),and published by Prof. Percy Gardner (in the Numismatic Chronicle^1871), N. S., vol. xix, pp. 274—281), with a partial decipherment of theAryan-Pali legend of the largest of the two. (1799) The smaller specimen lias on the Obverse. A horse to right, of non-Chinese stylo. Inscription entirely worn out. Reveere.4i ^ Pan kin. A corruptecl imitation of (117). (l7.)Da) The larger specimen is Liliugual, as follows: A horse to right,similar to pre-ceding. Inscrip-tion in Aryan-Pali from rightto left, beginnini^above the horse,on the left: which reads : Afdhanijma rajadirajasa mnhataxaheramayasa.

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In the centre an oldform of ^ , for money, surroundedby the legend ; thewhole within a bor-der of labyrinthinepattern. ^ ? ? m — m n m ? ? Tchung yh Hang sze tchn.= ? ? worth one ounce four tchus. These sole representatives of a coinage issued by the Yueh-ti for their intercoursewith the Chinese, then advanced east and west of the Tsung-ling mountains, suggestthe probability of other issues still undiscovered. AXClF.XT KOUND-MU^EV. 395 (h) Ii;ON CUKUENCY OV SllUU (SzK-TonuEx). During tlie troubles which accompanied the full of the usurper WangMang, in the first jearKeng-shc ;g ^^% i.e. a.d. 23, Knng-sun Shiih /^J^^x \)^took possession of Tcheng-tio ^ ^, the chief city of Shuh §5 (still thecapital city of Sze-tckuen), proclaimed himstdf Governor d;;^ of Yh-ichoa^ jjl (name of that region at the time). He made himself successively King of Shah, in a.d. 2i, and Tcheug Tl j^ •^;, i. e. Perfect Emperor,in the following year. His rebellion was eventually quashed, and him-self killed, b

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