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Northern Song Dynasty (full length 960-1126)
Part Two 1067-1126
The latter half of the Northern Song Dynasty has many of the most interesting and most beautiful coins in existence. My favorite coin is the Zheng He Tong Bao which exists in many stunning variants like the one pictured above.
The coins below are listed in chronological order, and I have provided an example of the two, or sometimes three, basic script styles of the coin issued. On the left will be a formal or running script coin, and on the right a cursive or seal script coin with the same legend. Over time I will make variants pages for each coin to display many variations that exist. If a section is blank it means that I do not yet own one of that coin. The Shao Sheng Tong Bao exists only in the formal script so I have shown the backside of the coin on the right.
I have written the characters below on the left using Japanese encoding. It will appear garbled if your browser is not set to read Japanese, but you can ignore it if you do not need the characters.
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