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CHINA: LOT of 143 coins

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CHINA: LOT of 143 coins
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CHINA: LOT of 143 coins, large format album of Ancient Chinese Coins (cash coins) discovered at the Palmer River Goldfields North Queensland Australia described in a clip-lock bound volume with a red vinyl cover with silver printing, and described as the Courtenay Collection, all coins annotated with expansive text by Keith and Bibiana Courtney, Brisbane, in 1987. The collection contains 143 coins from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty all described with Schjoth references. Average quality examples, numbered 25 of this 'Special Edition', very interesting! lot of 143 coins. This collection represents a selection from 32,000 coins in this hoard. The publication has a forward by Bredt Clayton (University of Queensland) and another by Francis Wildt-Paqvlu (Queensland College of Art). The publication includes photographs, text translations and a historical background to the Chinese goldminer's on the Palmer River. It is a hoard that is reported to have been found circa 1980 in an earthenware crock near Maytown on the Palmer River Goldfield, Queensland, Australia. This unique cache, which included two pieces of Warring States 'knife-money' dating from and coins of the Tang dynasty and later was sold off under the auspices of the Palmer River Historic Preservation Society. This publication is believed to be one of a number produced by this body for sale to interested collectors. With copies of letters from the Fitzwilliam Museum, The British Museum and the Heberden Coin Room at Oxford thanking Courtenay for gifts of similar albums.