Age: Late Zhou, 4th century bce

Description: 4 northern Chinese archaic bronze knife coins of the so-called 'ming' type, likely Zhou dynasty.

Size: 5 1/4", 13.5 cm.

Provenance: From a South Florida home

Notes: See: Wang Yu-Ch’uan, EARLY CHINESE COINAGE, (New York: American Numismatic Society Numismatic notes
Monographs #122, 1951, republished by Durst in 1980, page 166. These are called Ming knives, not because of the dynasty, but because they have the character 'ming', suggesting brightness, on the obverse.

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