Bronze Qianyuan Heavy Coin (Illustration) -

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
05 December 2018

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Bronze Qianyuan Heavy Coin — This is a copper alloy coin with a double rim, worth 50 standard coins. Obverse, Chinese inscription. Minted in China. Tang Dynasty, 759 CE. (The British Museum, London).

Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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