5 Zhu With right rim
Features
| Issuer |
China (ancient)
 |
|---|---|
| Emperor |
Sui dynasty › Wen of Sui (581-604)
|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 581-585 |
| Value | 5 Zhu |
| Currency | Zhu (original continued, 25-618) |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | 1.88 g |
| Diameter | 25 mm |
| Shape | Round with a square hole |
| Technique | Cast |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 240448 |
| References | Hartill# 10.26 David Hartill; 2017. Cast Chinese Coins (2nd Edition). Self-published, London, United Kingdom. Ding Fubao, George Albert Fisher; 1990. Fisher's Ding. G. A. Fisher, Littleton, Colorado, United States. |
Obverse
Two Chinese ideograms read right to left.
Script: Chinese
Lettering: 銖五
Translation:
Wu Zhu
5 Zhu
Reverse
Blank (uniface).
Edge
Plain
Comments
The types with a right inner were either cast by the Western Wei dynasty (during the Northern dynasties) or the Sui dynasty. While those with very straight lines of Wu were originally attributed to the Sui dynasty, they were re-classified after being found in a tomb of the Western Wei.
Those from the Sui dynasty have an hourglass-shaped Wu, and after 585, they are more whitish-yellow in colour due to the change in composition, adding lead and tin.
Those from the Sui dynasty have an hourglass-shaped Wu, and after 585, they are more whitish-yellow in colour due to the change in composition, adding lead and tin.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| ND (581-585) | |||||||||||||||
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