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Lot Classification: Mechanism Copper Coin > Local Province> Sichuan Province made > Malan Series > Ten Texts > Green Ants Peony Brass
Lot: Beijing Chengxuan 2021 Autumn Auction - Mechanism Coin
Shooting start date: 2021-11-30 09:30:00
Auction company: Beijing Chengxuan
Auction Status: Sold
Lot description: Sichuan Ten Literary Type "Green Ants Fly back to Fly Back" Malan brass coin in the Republic of China period, full of wear, carved on the front of a flying green flying frog, back carved a blooming peony, and the crane peony theme Malan is a product of the same period, or specially minted for the Chengdu Mint in response to the needs of some dignitaries and celebrities, the pattern design is beautiful, exquisitely made; because the ancient Qingfly is compared to the money that can be turned back, the Qingfeng Malan has always been loved by the spring industry and businessmen, hoping that money can also be restored; the auction is a famous treasure of Malan. The number of surviving people was originally scarce, because everyone likes to hide, and now it is difficult to find a product, and the value of those with good quality has doubled
According to the Eastern Jin Dynasty Ganbao's Book of Search for God, volume 13: "There are insects in the south... It is a cicada-like and slightly larger. The birth of a child will be a blade of grass, as big as a silkworm. Take his son, and the mother will fly, not near or far. Though she steals her son, the mother will know where it is. Eighty-one texts of money are smeared with mother's blood, and eighty-one texts are coated with child blood, and each city thing, or the mother's money first, or the child money first, all return to the sky, and the rotation is endless. Therefore, in later generations, "green ants" are called money, taking its meaning of repeated and inexhaustible use.
Lot Classification: Mechanism Copper Coins
Lot Description: During the Republic of China period, Sichuan Ten Literary Type "Green Ants Fly back and forth" Malan white copper coin, CL-SCM.08, carved on the front of a green ants with wings outstretched, a blooming peony carved on the back, and the crane peony theme Malan is a product of the same period, or specially minted for the Chengdu Mint in response to the needs of some dignitaries and celebrities, the pattern design is beautiful, exquisitely made; because the ancient ants are compared to the money that can be turned back, the green ants Malan has always been quite popular with the spring industry and merchants, hoping that money can also be restored Although the circulation traces of the lot are relatively heavy, they are still rare varieties of Maran coins
Lot Classification: Mechanism Copper Coin > Local Province> Made in Sichuan Province> Ma Lan bowed to Ma > Five Texts > 10,000 words of white copper
Transaction price: RMB 0
Auction Status: Streaming
Lot description: Sichuan Wuwen malan white copper coin in the Republic of China period, CL-SCM.15, reverse bowed capuchin horseback four-star and Buddhist "wan" character figure, the size is slightly smaller (21.3 mm), minted by the local warlord mint, found very little, the front edge of the local peel
Source: Chinese-American coin collector J.C Lee Old Collection Publishing: Catalogue of Chinese Mechanism Copper Dollars (Second Edition), p. 175, figure SCM.15, edited by Zhou Qinyuan and Li Pingwen, Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House, 2018 Youlan Zhi - Sichuan Maran Coin Appreciation, p. 149, figure CM204, Li Liang et al., Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2019 Record: 2 December 2010 Hong Kong Champion (CHAMPION) Auction "J.C. Lee's Old Collection of Maran Coins" feature, Lot No. 244, all of which are from the Chongqing Mint Archives, which was a gift from J.C Lee as an advisor to the Chongqing Mint in the 1940s.
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