CNG 96, Lot: 1079. Estimate $200. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CHINA, Eastern Zhou dynasty - Warring States Period. State of Wèi. City of An Yi. Circa 425-375 BC. Æ Two Jin – Arched Foot Spade (65x41mm, 29.88 g). An Yi Er Jin in early zhuànshū Hànzì (seal script) characters / Blank. BN Chinoises I 154-6; Yü-Ch'üan pl. XIV, 4 var. (direction of inscription); Shanghai I 239-40; Hartill 3.10. Good VF, green patina with green encrustation and a light dusting of brown earthen deposits.

From the J.P. Righetti Collection.