Interesting Ancient Chinese Spade Charm For ID #4

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Jeff 11 Valued Member United Kingdom 497 Posts	Posted 04/04/2014 2:35 pm I have just bought an old collection of Chinese charms, along with a few coins. The collection these were from were put together around 1910, and most have old tags attached. I've one a thread for each of them on the ID forum. I've got a fair idea on most of them, but could do with some help on the exact type for some. Any info would be much appreciated! Charm 4. 56 x 35 mm Weight: 14.13 Grams www.kingstoncoincompany.co.uk Report this Post to the Staff

John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 04/04/2014 2:40 pm It's called spade money http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=m...+spade+money John1 Report this Post to the Staff
Jeff 11 Valued Member United Kingdom 497 Posts	Posted 04/04/2014 2:42 pm Thanks John. Pretty sure this one is a spade money type charm (of which there are several types). Fingers crossed there's an expert on here somewhere, I know I've had some great info on some Chinese charms on here before www.kingstoncoincompany.co.uk Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16834 Posts	Posted 04/04/2014 9:36 pm Items like this are more "replicas" or "copies", rather than charms, since they replicate the inscriptions on original coins. In this case, the original is a 2 jin spade from the Liang (Wei) state, 400-300 BC, listed in Hartill as number 3.48. Scholars still debate about exactly how best to translate the archaic inscriptions on these spades. Here's a genuine one on zeno.ru to compare it with. Note particularly the corners and edges which are both sharper and less well-defined than on your piece. A "jin" weighed around 14 grams, so a two-jin spade should weigh about 28 grams. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Petrus Pillar of the Community Belgium 2895 Posts	Posted 04/05/2014 2:46 pm lots of info on spade coins : http://www.calgarycoin.com/referenc...d.htm#spades Report this Post to the Staff
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