China, Empire and Republic period, a collection of 70 Chines...

Hammer

£600

China, Empire and Republic period, a collection of 70 Chinese provinces 10 cash copper coins and other coins,

CONDITION: Including

2 x SHANTUNG PROVINCE 10 Cash Y# 221a (1904-05), one with edge nick otherwise both toned VF.

2 x ANHWEI PROVINCE 10 Cash Y# 36a.1 (1902-06), both toned, VF & good VF

3 x HUPEH PROVINCE 10 Cash Y# 122.1 (1902-05), one with edge dent otherwise two EF, one VF

1 HUNAN PROVINCE 10 Cash Y# 399, VF

1 HUPEH PROVINCE 10 Cash Y# 10j.2 (1906), VF

1 FUKIEN PROVINCE 10 Cash Y# 97 (1901-05), VF

FUKIEN PROVINCE 10 Cash Y# 100 (1901-05), good VF

1 HUNAN PROVINCE 20 Cash Y# 400.6, sellotape remnants otherwise good VF





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. A number of the Asian numismatic reference books will be offered in our 29th March sale.



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.