339, Lot: 516. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CHINA, The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Later Hàn. Yĭndì. AD 947-950. Æ Wén (24mm, 3.04 g). Cast AD 948-950. Han Yuan Tong Bao in lìshū Hànzì (clerical script) characters; pellet below Tong / Blank. BN Chinoises II 1458-9 var. (no pellet); Hartill 15.11 (Gāozǔ). VF, brown patina.

From the J.P. Righetti Collection.