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48-2-6

From: China

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 48-2-6
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese
Provenience China
Period Song Dynasty (uncertain) | Ming Dynasty (uncertain)
Date Made Song Dynasty - Ming Dynasty
Section Asian
Materials Bronze
Iconography Sun | Moon
Description

Magic coin. Round with square hole. Obverse: 大觀通寶 Da guan tong bao (Currency of the Great Design). Reverse: Circle of heaven with sun and moon.

Outside Diameter 11.5 cm
Credit Line Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harald) Paumgarten, 1948, 1948
Other Number L-2-340 - Old Loan Number

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