Posted 09/01/2014 02:10 am
Modern copy.
It's not that the edges are too clean, but the lines are too regular. For a pointed foot spade you would have a coin between 1 and 2 mm thick with undefined edges (for this period type coin) and the characters are always in low relief for pointed foot spades.
For reference, look at:
Coole, Arthur: series of 7 books on early Chinese coinage
Fisher, George: Fisher's Ding (annotated translation of Ding Fubao's "Illustrated Guide to Chinese Old Coins")
Hartill, David: Chinese Cast Coins - concise guide to all Chinese coins
Shanghai Museum - Catalog of Chinese Coins in the Shanghai Museum ("Shanghai Daxi" the golden standard.) a set of these catalogs will set you back about $500 right now. And it's all in Chinese.
Hartill is available from Bob Reis, and I sell copies of Fisher's Ding. Coole is costly and has been out of print for 40+ years.
All 3 above use rubbings of genuine coins for illustrations, which helps identify fakes pretty handily.
I have a bunch of fake spades I bought for about $1 each a while ago. I sell them as key chains.
It's not that the edges are too clean, but the lines are too regular. For a pointed foot spade you would have a coin between 1 and 2 mm thick with undefined edges (for this period type coin) and the characters are always in low relief for pointed foot spades.
For reference, look at:
Coole, Arthur: series of 7 books on early Chinese coinage
Fisher, George: Fisher's Ding (annotated translation of Ding Fubao's "Illustrated Guide to Chinese Old Coins")
Hartill, David: Chinese Cast Coins - concise guide to all Chinese coins
Shanghai Museum - Catalog of Chinese Coins in the Shanghai Museum ("Shanghai Daxi" the golden standard.) a set of these catalogs will set you back about $500 right now. And it's all in Chinese.
Hartill is available from Bob Reis, and I sell copies of Fisher's Ding. Coole is costly and has been out of print for 40+ years.
All 3 above use rubbings of genuine coins for illustrations, which helps identify fakes pretty handily.
I have a bunch of fake spades I bought for about $1 each a while ago. I sell them as key chains.
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