F1043, Illustrated Rare Coins of Khitan (Tartar), China (2011)

F1043, Illustrated Rare Coins of Khitan (Tartar), China (2011).

Author: Pei Yuanbo, Chen Chuanjiang
Publisher: Anhui Fine Arts Publishing House.

206 colourful pages in good quality, with over 200 high quality color images. Edited and printed in 2011 in China.

The Khitan people were a nomadic Mongolic people, originally from Mongolia and Manchuria (the northeastern region of modern day China) from the 4th century. They dominated a vast area north of China by the 10th century under the Liao Dynasty. Khitan minted many coins with varieties in very small quantity, but most of them are rare.

This book is edited in Chinese. But if the reader can not read Chinese, she/he can understand the detail through colourful pictures.

Total Weight of the book: around 650 grams.
Size of the book: 171mm*244mm.