CNG 96, Lot: 1084. Estimate $150. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CHINA, Eastern Zhou dynasty - Warring States Period. State of Zhào. City of Handan. Circa 350-250 BC. Æ Straight Knife (138x17mm, 10.04 g). Gan Dan in early zhuànshū Hànzì (seal script) characters / Er in early zhuànshū Hànzì (seal script) characters. BN Chinoises I 91-3; Yü-Ch'üan pl. XLVIII, 3; Shanghai I 1258 var. (Er on reverse); Hartill 4.67. Good Fine, blue encrustations. Scarce straight variety, issued by only a few cities in Zhào.

From the J.P. Righetti Collection.