v20_1551 - CHINA - TE-TSUNG Dollar n.d. Nanking

MONNAIES 20 (2004)
Starting price : 600.00 €
Estimate : 1 000.00 €
Realised price : 915.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 1 250.00 €

Type : Dollar

Date: (1898)

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Nanking

Quantity minted : 1603000

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰

Diameter : 39 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 26,92 g.

Edge : inscrite en creux avec des feuilles de roseaux

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

D’infimes marques de manipulation au droit ainsi qu’un minime plat d’usure sur le nez du dragon. Par ailleurs, exemplaire splendide et recouvert d’une superbe patine grise de collection aux reflets bleutés

Catalogue references :

KM/WC.19/145

Obverse

Obverse description : Caractères chinois.

Reverse

Reverse legend : * KIANG NAN PROVINCE *// 7 MACE AND 2 CANDAREENS.

Reverse description : Dragon de face.

Historical background

CHINA - TE-TSUNG

(1875-1908)

Tseu Hi (1835-1908) is the main character in the history of China between 1861 and 1908. Wife of Wen Tsung (1851-1861), she chooses, after the death of her son Mu Tsung (1862-1875), Te Tsung, his nephew, to succeed him. Meanwhile, the Western powers are preparing the territorial and political dismemberment of China. The boxer movement (1898-1901) aimed to drive out Europeans. After the siege of the legations in Beijing in 1900, with the Empress's consent, sedition was drowned in blood. Te Tsung and the Empress die under mysterious conditions within days of each other. Tseu Hi's little nephew succeeds him, he is three years old, his name is Pou Yi: he is the last Manchu emperor (1908-1911).