Date: Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC)
Area: Royal Family of Zhou
Dimensions: Length 95.22 mm, Foot Breadth 51.31 mm
Material: Bronze

• Object Type：
  • COINS
• Tag：
  • spade coin character spring and autumn royal family of zhou bronze

Spade coin is a kind of money shaped like a spade. And those flat-shouldered, arc-footed and hollow-socket ones were cast and issued by the royal family of Zhou in the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods, including large, middle and small sizes. It is more common to see a single character inscribed on such coins instead of two or more than two characters. There are different explanations for the inscriptions with some suggesting the names of some places, others regarding them as the names of a clan or the craftsmen. This coin with five characters cast by royal family of Zhou in the Spring and Autumn period is a rare treasure.