F1044, Book: The Coin Trees from Khitan (Tartar), China (2011)

F1044, Book: The Coin Trees from Khitan (Tartar), China (2011).

Author: Pei Yuanbo, Chen Chuanjiang

Publisher: Anhui Fine Arts Publishing House.

208 colourful pages in good quality, with over 150 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.

Coin trees are examples of a middle stage of cash coin manufacture. After the coins have been cast in sand molds and the metal has hardened, the whole lot of them are removed from the mold in one piece.

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.