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718-732 Tang Dynasty Kaiyuan Tongbao Hartill 14.4u

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718-732 Tang Dynasty Kaiyuan Tongbao Hartill 14.4u
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718-732 Chinese Tang dynasty 1 Cash bronze coin, obverse lettering Kai Yuan Tong Bao, reverse engraced a crescent above, Hartill 14.4u, D: 25 mm, 4.05 grams. The Tang Dynasty, with its capital at Changan (present-day Xian), the most populous city in the world at the time, is generally regarded as a high point in Chinese civilization - a golden age of cosmopolitan culture. Its territory, acquired through the military campaigns of its early rulers, was greater than that of the Han period, and it rivaled that of the later Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. In 907 the Tang Dynasty was ended when Zhu Wen, now a military governor, deposed the last emperor of Tang, Emperor Ai of Tang, and took the throne for himself (known posthumously as Emperor Taizu of Later Liang). He established the Later Liang Dynasty, which inaugurated the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. A year later the deposed Emperor Ai was poisoned to death by Zhu Wen. PROVENANCE: Private collection of Ken Dorney, classical numismatist dealer