World Silver & Bronze
Lot 3581 Session 12 (11.30am Thursday) World Silver & Bronze
Estimate $300
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SOLD $250
CHINA, Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), silver drum shaped sycee ingot, from Shichuan Province, Qianwei County, Jiding Prefecture, type XL (Cribb), 'Sichuan Piaoding', ten taels or ten ounce type, (373 grams), with one large one four character block of stamps, 'Jian-we-xian', (cf.Cribb 459 (PL.49) with only one set of characters, this of similar size and type but one block only). Very fine and very rare.
Cribb records several examples of similar types to above piece.
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