China Empire, a group of 68 bronze and copper cash, Tongzhi,...

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£380

China Empire, a group of 68 bronze and copper cash, Tongzhi, Guangxu and Xuantong period (1862-1912),
different varieties and mints including Hartill CCC 22.1514, 22.1518, 22.1203, 22.1132, 22.137, two 22.1336, and 22.1293

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Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Asian works of art, coins and antiquities principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He amassed a good reference library on Chinese & Asian coins and wrote on several occasions (1969-70) to to the academic F.A. Turk regarding the study of coin amulets and other non-currency coinages of China. Arber-Cooke initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.