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WARRING STATES: Ba & Shu States, 300-225 BC, AE "bridge money" (8.51g), VF

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Chinese Coins - Ancient Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:75.00 - 100.00 USD
WARRING STATES: Ba & Shu States, 300-225 BC, AE  bridge money  (8.51g), VF
SOLD
280.00USD+ buyer's premium (56.00)
This item SOLD at 2025 Nov 17 @ 12:22UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
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WARRING STATES: Ba & Shu States, 300-225 BC, AE "bridge money" (8.51g), 83mm, with heads of beast and linear curlicues on both sides, VF, ex Dr. Dirk Löer Collection. Though colloquially known as 'bridge money,' these bronze 'bridges' are formally known only as funerary objects designed to imitate the stone chimes of the bianqing. Bridge Money pieces have now been dated to circa 306-221 BC and are accepted by many--but not all--Chinese numismatists as actual coins of Ba and Shu States during the Warring States period.