6-4 Dynastie Chou Ville de Li-shih Monnaie bêche à épaules rondes hauteur: 7.2/7.3 cm Poids: 16 grs 6-7 hauteur: 4.5 cm Poids: 12 grs 6-8 autre exemplaire Poids: 12 grs 6-5 Régence de Wang Mang AD7-23 Réf M. Mitchiner 5442 hauteur: 5.8 cm Poids: 15 grs 6-6 Sur la première bêche les deux faces sont identiques alors que ce n'est pas le cas sur la seconde. Le revers est séparé en deux par un axe central, avec de part et d'autre les symboles de la lune, à gauche, et du soleil, à droite. Mais les deux pièces semblent être de dimensions identiques. Poids: 15 grs Quelques informations complémentaires ( Désolé, c'est en anglais ) ci-dessous: Interregnum between W. Han and E. Han Dynasties, Hsin Dynasty, regent/usurper Wang Mang, AD9-23, Revival of Chou Dynasty coin types, Huo-Pu, AE Spade Money, introduced in AD14, Schjoth 148, FD486. Wang Mang was a nephew of the empress-dowager of the Han Dynasty and a high court official. Following a succession of weak rulers, he seized the throne for himself in AD9 (some references give his starting date as AD7). He sought to institute numerous reforms, attacking the privileges of the wealthy and landowners by nationalizing all of the land and outlawing the sale of slaves. He was unable to carry it through and was forced to repeal these edicts. However, his greatest success was fiscal. He insisted that all gold be exchanged for copper and cornered the market in gold. By his death is AD23 the royal treasury held approximately 5 million ounces of gold (more than the total supply of medieval Europe) and the strain on gold supply was felt as far away as Rome (yes, there was trade between China and Rome through intermediaries), prompting the Emperor Tiberius to ban the wearing of silk because it had to paid for in gold. Numerous natural disasters(the Yellow River changed course twice in 6 years), however, increased the common misery and, having alienated the monied classes and never having had much support from the provinces where the members of the former Han Dynasty still held sway, Wang Mang found himself without friends when rebellion broke out in AD23 and he was slain by a common soldier. 7 hauteur 9.6 cm Poids: 29 grs 7 hauteur: 8.6 cm Poids: 22 grs 6-9 Chou Dynasty? Bronze. Monnaie bêche à épaules rondes et pieds carrés. hauteur: 5.3/5.4 cm Poids: 13 grs 6-10 Ma  toute première monnaie bêche. hauteur:  5.8 cm Poids: 13 grs C'est par ailleurs, la bêche la plus fine en épaisseur de toute ma collection.