428, Lot: 654. Estimate $150. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

WORLD. China. Lot of fifteen (15) Æ Qing – ‘bridge money’ charms. All pieces: Curved bronze qing with suspension loop or hole at top, some with minor decorative elements. Average VF, some with thick encrustation. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Fifteen (15) coins in lot.

From the J.P. Righetti Collection.

Though colloquially known as ‘bridge money,’ these bronze ‘bridges’ are actually funerary objects designed to imitate the stone chimes of the bianqing. They never circulated as currency.