Description (Physical description)
Knife-coin
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card notes 'Knife - coin / Large heavy (1 3/4 oz) Ch'i knife 7 1/4 = 18 cm long / [?]v. currency of Ch'i / R. san shih [three vertical lines]'
'Probably the latest form/type of the large knife-coins / about 500-220 B. C.'. '526.1' written underneath the place name in the top right-hand corner'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten card probably associated with 1935.291 and Z 44842 reads in black ink:
'Chinese coins S.L. 34
2 knife coins of the State of Ch'i, circa. 680-260 B.C. (1 on exhibition)

Obverse: 齊去 (for 法) 化 CH'I FA HUA
or 齊寶化 CH'I PAO HUA

Standard or valuable coin of the State of Ch'i (in modern Shantung Province) with two lines on the handle.

Reverse: Three cross lines (perhaps meaning 三, 3) at the top and 化 HUA abbreviated, with two lines in the handle.'
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (References)
Schlosser. C. M. Pl. 10. fig. 32 / p. 41
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
A hand written label affixed with string reads 'Z 44.842 Knife coin. Large heavy (1 3/4 oz) Ch'i Knife 7 1/4 = 18 cm long Currency of Ch'i' in blue in on one side and 'Probably the latest form of the large knife coins about 500-220 B.B. State of Chi Shantung' in blue ink on the other side'
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
A hand written label affixed with string reads '526.1 d.c' in pencil.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Amendments / updates)
Z number given 19.2.1987.
Event Date 1987
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
A large, heavy knife coin, currency of Ch'i. Probably the latest form of this type of currency. The end has a concave curve and one side has an inscription down the length of the 'blade'.
Event Date 15/3/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson