F1657, Illustrated Catalogue of Currency of China Changzhou City

F1657, Illustrated Catalogue of Currency of China Changzhou City (Bamboo Tallies).

Author: Yuan Tao.

Publisher: Hong Kong East Culture Center.

352 pages in very good quality, with 991 Pcs high quality color images. Edited and printed in 2000 in Hong Kong.

Changzhou is a large and historical city near Shanghai. The currency of Changzhou traced back to AD 1000’s. And during 1930’s to 1950’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 0.7 Kilograms. Size of the book: 220*295mm.