Mittelalter Bronze 168-200 n. Chr. Wu Zhu cash, late Eastern Han period, ca.168-200 CE, Eastern Han, China

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Two large Chinese characters Wu Zhu ("5 zhu") / Blank. 26mm, 3.28 grams. Gratzer/Fishman "One Thousand Years of Wu Zhu Coinage" page 64. Hartill 10.2var; Schjoth 178var.

In the period following the reign of Emperor Huan Di (AD 146-168), many Wu Zhus were cast privately all over China. Because they were cast in numerous foundries all over the empire and were not issued by a single authority, the weight, size, and quality of the cast coins varied greatly. Many of the full-sized coins have an official look to them, but they are still of unofficial casting. They seem to have been cast using the old coins of the previous Eastern Han emperors as mother coins. They can be distinguished from the official coins by rough casting, as many of them have characteristic surfaces in low relief and rough surfaces.

The Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 CE) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE) and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms (220-265 CE). It was founded by the peasant rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty (23 CE) of the former regent Wang Mang. This interregnum separates the Han into two periods: the Western Han (206 BC-9 CE) and Eastern Han (25-220 CE). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the "Han people"

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