China, 17 Ancient bronze round coins, Southern Dynasties (42...

Hammer

£360

China, 17 Ancient bronze round coins, Southern Dynasties (420 AD) to Tang dynasty (907 AD) 18 coins to include a Xiao Jan, Southern dynasty - Song (420-79 AD), Hartill 13.14, 1.2g, a Chang Ping Wu Zhu, Northern Qi (550-77 AD), H. 13.27, 3.9g, two Wu Xing Da Bu (Northern Zhou 557-81 AD) H. 13.30, 5g, and H. 13.33, 1.4g, together with fourteen Kai Yuan tong bao (Tang dynasty 621-907 AD) with various crescent marks to most reverses

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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. 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.