Coins in China's history

[capnbirdseye]

Just found some coin books in the loft, one is 'coins in China's history' by Arthur Braddan Coole 1963
I couldn't see it listed here.

This book is packed full of myriads of photo's of coins with full translations of the Chinese characters starting with primitive spade money right up to the 20th century, also lots of dynasty charts etc.in colour

[Bimat]

Found one on Amazon.

Details:

Publisher: Mona J Coole Akers; 4th edition (June 1965)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0912706015
ISBN-13: 978-0912706016

Aditya

[Chinasmith]

Mona Jean Coole Akers died about 20 years ago. The Arthur B. Coole book, Coins IN China's History, is a great starter book on Chinese coins, but it has been out of print for decades. Four editions were published -- 1937, 1938, 1963 and 1964. Coole later began a series of books in his Encyclopedia of Chinese Coins series. The first one was a bibliography and coin inscription index, published in 1967. Volumes 2 through 6 were on different categories of spade coins and knife coins. Volume 7 on the early round coins (cash coins) before 618 AD, was published after his death in 1978. Coole's own research library is now at the American Numismatic Association Library in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His coin collection was sold to a Kansas City coin dealer in 1964. He held it intact and expanded it until he sold it to a Taiwan coin dealer during 1977-1978. The last part of the collection, consisting of Chinese coin molds, paper money printing plates, paper money, and coins of Sinkiang, was not sold to the Taiwan dealer. After the death of the Kansas City dealer in the 1990's (?) the remainder of the collection was donated to a college in Texas. In 2010 the college consigned the collection to Lyn Knight, another Kansas City dealer, and it was sold in auction at the annual Memphis Paper Money Show in June 2011. -- Bruce W. Smith

[Figleaf]

If a collector leaves part of a renowned collection to a scientific institute, the intention of the collector is clearly that the collections stays together and is used for scientific and educational purposes. For the institution to accept such a gift, then turn around and sell, even while the widow is still alive it is a sign of exceptional bad taste and disrespect. If you can't be bothered with the gift, don't accept it.

Peter