Author: Eduard Kann
Publisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 9780923891206
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Coins by Eduard Kann Vol. 3 of 3 Sinkiang, Tibet and Mongolian Coins plus Gold, Forgery and Fantasy Coins Dr. Eduard Kann (1880-1962) was the world's leading authority on Chinese coins and on the Chinese monetary system. He was a banker who lived in China for 47 years, during which he both collected coins and served as a top advisor to the Ministry of Finance in China. He writes that "I had to leave China in a hurry" during the takeover by the Communists in 1949. The New York Times for May 23, 1971 reports: "The finest collection of Chinese coins - the collection of Eduard Kann, a banker who lived in China for 47 years. During his long numismatic career, Mr. Kann compiled the Catalog of Chinese Coins published in 1953." This book does not merely contain pictures of the coins and descriptions thereof. Included are biographies of the emperors, war lords, and sometimes even bureaucrats whose likenesses were depicted on these coins. Included are biographies of men whose identities have otherwise been lost to history. This book is must reading for coin collectors and students of the history of China. The massive original was one volume of 700 pages in length. This reprint divides the book into three volumes. The photographs and illustrations that are at the end of the book in the original have been moved up to be next to or close to the coins that are being described.
中國幣圖說彙考 (銀, 金, 鎳, 鋁)
Author: Eduard Kann
Publisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 9780923891206
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Coins by Eduard Kann Vol. 3 of 3 Sinkiang, Tibet and Mongolian Coins plus Gold, Forgery and Fantasy Coins Dr. Eduard Kann (1880-1962) was the world's leading authority on Chinese coins and on the Chinese monetary system. He was a banker who lived in China for 47 years, during which he both collected coins and served as a top advisor to the Ministry of Finance in China. He writes that "I had to leave China in a hurry" during the takeover by the Communists in 1949. The New York Times for May 23, 1971 reports: "The finest collection of Chinese coins - the collection of Eduard Kann, a banker who lived in China for 47 years. During his long numismatic career, Mr. Kann compiled the Catalog of Chinese Coins published in 1953." This book does not merely contain pictures of the coins and descriptions thereof. Included are biographies of the emperors, war lords, and sometimes even bureaucrats whose likenesses were depicted on these coins. Included are biographies of men whose identities have otherwise been lost to history. This book is must reading for coin collectors and students of the history of China. The massive original was one volume of 700 pages in length. This reprint divides the book into three volumes. The photographs and illustrations that are at the end of the book in the original have been moved up to be next to or close to the coins that are being described.
Publisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 9780923891206
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Coins by Eduard Kann Vol. 3 of 3 Sinkiang, Tibet and Mongolian Coins plus Gold, Forgery and Fantasy Coins Dr. Eduard Kann (1880-1962) was the world's leading authority on Chinese coins and on the Chinese monetary system. He was a banker who lived in China for 47 years, during which he both collected coins and served as a top advisor to the Ministry of Finance in China. He writes that "I had to leave China in a hurry" during the takeover by the Communists in 1949. The New York Times for May 23, 1971 reports: "The finest collection of Chinese coins - the collection of Eduard Kann, a banker who lived in China for 47 years. During his long numismatic career, Mr. Kann compiled the Catalog of Chinese Coins published in 1953." This book does not merely contain pictures of the coins and descriptions thereof. Included are biographies of the emperors, war lords, and sometimes even bureaucrats whose likenesses were depicted on these coins. Included are biographies of men whose identities have otherwise been lost to history. This book is must reading for coin collectors and students of the history of China. The massive original was one volume of 700 pages in length. This reprint divides the book into three volumes. The photographs and illustrations that are at the end of the book in the original have been moved up to be next to or close to the coins that are being described.
Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Coins
Author: Eduard Kann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Coins
Author: Eduard Kann
Publisher: New York : Mint Productions
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Mint Productions
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Pacific Area
Author: United States. Air Force. Pacific Air Forces
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Empire of Silver
Author: Jin Xu
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300258275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A thousand-year history of how China’s obsession with silver influenced the country’s financial well-being, global standing, and political stability This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with “white metal” held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song dynasty in around 900 CE, silver gradually became central to China’s economic framework and was officially monetized in the middle of the Ming dynasty during the sixteenth century. However, due to the early adoption of paper money in China, silver was not formed into coins but became a cumbersome “weighing currency,” for which ingots had to be constantly examined for weight and purity—an unwieldy practice that lasted for centuries. While China’s interest in silver spurred new avenues of trade and helped increase the country’s global economic footprint, Jin Xu argues that, in the long run, silver played a key role in the struggles and entanglements that led to the decline of the Chinese empire.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300258275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A thousand-year history of how China’s obsession with silver influenced the country’s financial well-being, global standing, and political stability This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with “white metal” held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song dynasty in around 900 CE, silver gradually became central to China’s economic framework and was officially monetized in the middle of the Ming dynasty during the sixteenth century. However, due to the early adoption of paper money in China, silver was not formed into coins but became a cumbersome “weighing currency,” for which ingots had to be constantly examined for weight and purity—an unwieldy practice that lasted for centuries. While China’s interest in silver spurred new avenues of trade and helped increase the country’s global economic footprint, Jin Xu argues that, in the long run, silver played a key role in the struggles and entanglements that led to the decline of the Chinese empire.
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Author: Arlene D. C. Luster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Art Books, 1950-1979
Author: R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
Book Description
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
Book Description