Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the year ..

Freer, Charles Lang · 1906 · Shanghai : Kelley & Walsh · 9 pictures

This is a periodical volume, the Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, published in Shanghai by Kelley & Walsh in 1906 under editor Charles Lang Freer for scholars of Chinese history and civilization. Its plates are photographic reproductions of numbered Chinese coins, shown as rows of obverse and reverse faces with inscriptions, stars, and central square holes, offering a designer a catalogue of early coin layouts, circular medallion arrangements, and radiating star motifs.

History · Civilization · Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North-China Branch -- Periodicals · China -- History -- Periodicals · China -- Civilization -- Periodicals

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