China, 81 Ancient round coins, Tang to Northern Song dynasty...

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China, 81 Ancient round coins, Tang to Northern Song dynasty, (618-1127),
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The 30 Tang coins include a Qian Yuan zhong bao, Hartill CCC-14.101, 16.5g and a Shi Siming (758-61) De Yi yuan bao, (possibly a contemporary copy), CCC-14.140, 33mm, 19.2g, Ten Kingdoms coins include, three Zhou Yuan tong bao, CCC-15.12, Wang Jian (907-918) two Tian Han yuan bao, CCC-15.36, and a Guang Tian yuan bao, CCC-15.38, Wang Yan (919-925), Qian De yuan bao, CCC-15.42, Emperor Gao Zhu (947-48), two Han Yuan tong bao, CCC-15.5, Emperor Yuan Zhu (943-61), four Tang Guo tong bao, CCC-15.80, Emperor Yuan Zu (943-961), Da Tang tong bao, CCC-15.95 & H.15.96, Emperor Li Yu, two Kai Yuan tong bao, CCC-15.99, Northern Song dynasty: Emperor Tai Zu (960-76) five Song Yuan tong bao, CCC-16.1, Emperor Tai Zong (976-97) six Tai Ping tong bao, CCC-16.16 & H.16.17, eight Chun Hu yuan bao, CCC-16.25/26/28/29, ten Zhi Dao yuan bao, CCC-16.35 & CCC-16.41/2 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.