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Started by Igor Solo, February 12, 2023, 09:51:56 AM

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Igor Solo

Dears,
Help to ID this item.
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Figleaf

Three characters are Mongolian, which was used on coins during the Yuan dynasty. However, I have not found a coin that looks like it might have been made with your mould (?).

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

Manzikert

#2
As always, weight and dimensions would help enormously!

To me it looks like a weight, and the metal appears to be lead, but the inscription is confusing.

The left and right characters are from the I Ching. The other two characters are Chinese: top is 'gold' and bottom is 'mace', 1/10 tael or about 3.7 gm, though the size of the item is far too large to be a 'mace'.

[edit] The left hexagram is 62, "Small Exceeding" and the right one is a bit mangled but seems to be hexagram 16, "Providing-For", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching, though I don't think that helps much!

Alan