Identifier: catalogueofchine00terr (find matches)
Title: Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth cent. B. C., to A. D. 621. including the series in the Britis Museum
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Terrien de Lacouperie, d. 1894 Poole, Reginald Stuart, 1832-1895 British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals
Subjects: Numismatics Coins, Chinese
Publisher: London : The Trustees (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Text Appearing Before Image:
in the British Museum, by Prof. Percy Gardner, Litt. D., pp. 120,
121, and plate xxv, 1 and 2. These coins are bilingual,
written in Greek on one side, and in the North-Indian alphabet, called the Aryan-
Pali, on the otlier.
Two specimens of their copper (not iron) coins, of different types,
were procured by Sir T. Douglas Forsyth at Khotan, in Chinese
Turkistan (Journal of thx Royal Geographical Society, vol. xlvii p. 12),
and published by Prof. Percy Gardner (in the Numismatic Chronicle,
1871), N. S., vol. xix, pp. 274—281), with a partial decipherment of the
Aryan-Pali legend of the largest of the two.

(1799) The smaller specimen has on the
OBVERSE.
A horse to right, of non-Chinese style.
Inscription entirely worn out.
REVERSE.
Pan kin.
A corrupted imitation of (117).
Æ size 0.75
(l799a) The larger specimen is billingual, as follows:——
A horse to right,
similar to pre-
ceding. Inscrip-
tion in Aryan-
Pali from right
to left, beginning
above the horse,
on the left:

which reads :
maharajasa rajadirajasa mahatasa
heramayasa.
Text Appearing After Image:
In the centre an old
form of ^ , for
money, surrounded
by the legend ; the
whole within a bor-
der of labyrinthine
pattern. ^ ? ? m — m n m ? ? Tchung yh liang sze tchu.
== ? ? worth one ounce four tchus.
These sole representatives of a coinage issued by the Yueh-ti for their intercourse
with the Chinese, then advanced east and west of the Tsung-ling mountains, suggest
the probability of other issues still undiscovered.
—————
ANCIENT ROUND-MONEY. 395
(b) IRON CURRENCY OF SHUH (SZE-TCHUEN).
During tlie troubles which accompanied the full of the usurper Wang
Mang, in the first year Keng-she ;g ^^% i.e. a.d. 23, Kung-sun Shuh /^J^^x
took possession of Tcheng-tu ^ ^, the chief city of Shuh §5 (still the
capital city of Sze-tchuen), proclaimed himself Governor d;;^ of Yt-tchou
jjl (name of that region at the time). He made himself successively
King of Shuh, in a.d. 21, and Tcheng Ti j^ •^;, i. e. Perfect Emperor,
in the following year. His rebellion was eventually quashed, and him-
self killed, by a Chinese army, a.d. 36.

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