If you like really exotic bullion: The Heritage December 5-6 Hong Kong auction

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• Smudge Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 9, 2019 5:25PM

  XXX.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2019 10:41AM

  I like the gold.... but auctions - for me - are out of favor right now..... Just a personal thing.... Cheers, RickO

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• Weiss Posts: 9,935 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2019 10:58AM

  Song dynasty (800 years old):
  

  Qing dynasty (200 years old):
  

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
  --Severian the Lame
  

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• Hemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2019 11:15AM

  Very interesting!

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• Kliao Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2019 2:39PM edited November 10, 2019 2:39PM

  I wouldn’t call this bullion since it was used as everyday money in transactions.

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• Weiss Posts: 9,935 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2019 3:09PM

  @Kliao said:
  I wouldn’t call this bullion since it was used as everyday money in transactions.

  Should we not post pictures of any classic gold or 90% silver coins here anymore?

  Many of these pieces were issued alongside circulating coinage.

  Here's how Heritage described the 2nd bar (the long flat one next to the bathtub shaped Sycee up top):

  Minh Mang 10 Lang Bar CD 1849 XF, Hanoi mint, KM-Unl. (cf. KM206), Schr-Unl., Thierry-Unl. 118x28mm. 384gm. A seemingly unpublished bullion bar from the court treasury, including both the cyclical date (Year 29), as well as the name of Hanoi.

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
  --Severian the Lame
  

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