Issuing authority

China

Kind: state
Region: East Asia, Asia

Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.

Published entries

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

3 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

1119 – 1613

3 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

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Catalogue entries (3)

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Cash from the Chinese Empire of Emperor Hui Tsung under the reign name Hsuan-Ho, 1119–1125

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Cash from the Chinese Empire of Emperor Hui Tsung under the reign name Hsuan-Ho, 1119–1125

1119 - 1125

Copper coin. Obverse: within a wide raised rim around a square central aperture, four Chinese characters arranged in a cross, two of which mean: Hsuan ho. Reverse: smooth within a wide raised rim. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-4191; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal); te…

Documented

Partial type record

Cash of the Empire of China of Emperor Chengzu under the reign title Yongle, 1403-1424

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Cash of the Empire of China of Emperor Chengzu under the reign title Yongle, 1403-1424

1403 - 1424

Copper coin. Obverse: within a broad raised rim around a square central hole, four Chinese characters arranged in a cross, two of which mean: Yung lo. Reverse: smooth within a broad raised rim. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-4194; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal); techn…

Documented

Partial type record

Coin (cash) from the VOC ship 'Witte Leeuw'

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Coin (cash) from the VOC ship 'Witte Leeuw'

before 1613

Cash from the VOC ship 'Witte Leeuw'. Chinese red-copper coin originating from a barrel. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-1977-184-W; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal); measurements diameter 2.5 cm x height 0.1 cm.

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

12th century1
15th century1
17th century1

Only the 3 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.

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