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WARRING STATES: Ba & Shu States, ca. 300-225 BC, AE bridge money (21.66g), Fine

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Chinese Coins - Ancient Start Price:55.00 USD Estimated At:75.00 - 100.00 USD
WARRING STATES: Ba & Shu States, ca. 300-225 BC, AE bridge money (21.66g), Fine
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WARRING STATES: Ba & Shu States, ca. 300-225 BC, AE bridge money (21.66g), 135mm, uniface, with beast's head at each end, with faint traces of the beasts' eyes and simple geometric patterns, some encrustations, holed at top for suspension (most likely as made), Fine, ex Ilse & Rolf Braun 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.Rolf (1937-2016) and Ilse Braun were the founder and the secretary of the European Collectors of Primitive Money (EUCOPRIMO), a well-known organization in the field of ethnographic currency. Based in Germany, the group meets twice a year and issues a yearly magazine. Rolf and Ilse also co-authored Opium-Gewichte, one of the most referenced works on Burmese opium weights.