F1607, Illustrated Catalogue of Currency of Suzhou (With Bamboo Tallies)

F1607, Illustrated Catalogue of Currency of Suzhou (With Bamboo Tallies).

Author: Zhang Chongfeng

Publisher: Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House.

149 colourful pages in very good quality, with over 400 high quality color images. Edited and printed in 2005 in Shuzhou.

Suzhou is a large and historical city near Shanghai. The currency of Suzhou traced back to AD 1000’s. And during 1910’s to 1930’s, a very special coins, called “bamboo tallies” came into use in Suzhou. This catalogue has a section of the description and pictures of Bamboo Tallies. There are around 400 different coins/notes/bamboo tallies in this book, each with a picture.

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 1.10 Kilogram.
Size of the book: 220*295mm.