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CHINA: AE charm (18.31g), F-VF

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Chinese Coins - Charms Start Price:85.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
CHINA: AE charm (18.31g), F-VF
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This item SOLD at 2026 Jan 25 @ 21:38UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
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CHINA: AE charm (18.31g), 41mm, Xuan Wu "Daoist curse charm", lei zou sha gui jiang jing / zhan yao chu xie yong bao / shen qing feng / tai shang lao jun ji ji zhi ling ["God of Thunder (Lei) clear out and kill the ghosts and send down purity. Behead the demons, expel the evil and keep us eternally safe. Let this command from Lao Zi be executed quickly."] // Daoist "magic writing" at left, at right is the Daoist god Zhenwu, also known as the Perfected Warrior, F-VF, ex Dagmar Kringlebotten Collection. During the Han Dynasty, Zhenwu was known as Xuanwu and was depicted as a tortoise encircled by a snake. This symbol represented the north direction. Over the centuries this symbol gradually evolved and by the Song Dynasty had developed into the very popular warrior god Zhenwu associated with healing and protection.According to the consignor, who is the great-grandson of Dagmar Kringlebotten, she was born in Norway in 1891. Her father passed away when she was 4 years old, and when she was 9, her mother was remarried to a man named Lars Sørensen Hasle, who had already built a career in China. Dagmar followed her parents to China and landed in Woosung (Wusong) on November 16, 1900 after a 7-week journey on the SS Kiautschou. From there, they took a train to nearby Shanghai. In her memoir "En verdensborger ser tilbake" (1979), Dagmar recounts that as her family arrived in Shanghai, the city was still in the midst of the Boxer Rebellion. Its streets were flooded with antiques that soldiers had looted from official residences and later sold to small shops. They eventually settled into a comfortable life at No. 2, Kung Ping Road (near today's Gong Ping Road Ferry on the Huangpu River), in an ornately decorated home with several Chinese servants. It is unknown how Dagmar began collecting Chinese coins, but her interest might have been sparked by her family's acquaintance with another Norwegian ex-patriot, Johan Munthe (1864-1935), who was a high-ranking customs official in the employment of the Chinese government and an avid collector of Chinese art. In 1908, Dagmar returned to Norway via the Trans-Siberian Railway and brought home the collection that she eventually passed on to her descendants.