350, Lot: 657. Estimate $300. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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CHINA, Eastern Zhou dynasty - Warring States Period. State of Qí. Circa 400-220 BC. Æ ‘Qi’ Knife (181x29mm, 48.97 g).
[Qi] Fa [Hua] (= Qi Legal Money) in early
zhuànshū Hànzì (seal script) characters /
Fa Chang in early
zhuànshū Hànzì (seal script) characters. Cf. BN
Chinoises I 339-42; Hartill 4.6ar. VF, green patina with thick encrustations obscuring some characters, minor cleaning scratches. Rare.
From the Joan Wilde Collection.
Hartill (p. 58) notes that this reverse inscription appears to refer to an historical event.