JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN NUMISMATICS #21

Welcome to the 21st issue of the journal.

Our journal team will again work with leading numismatic author and editor Ron Guth on a book about the NC collection. The format will be similar to the 2015 Howard Franklin Bowker book, which was also edited by Ron Guth, Bruce Smith, and Michael Chou. Based on ten years of interviews with the owner of the NC collection, this book will give insight into one of the great collectors of Chinese numismatics and his family.

We have an article on the Smithsonian National Numismatic Collection's report on the digitization of 5,810 Chinese banknotes, which includes 4,500 notes from the collection of Alexander Pogrebetsky, in 1969 directed by Howard F. Bowker to NNC curators Vladimir and Elvira Clain Stefanelli, is extremely interesting.

Former Chinese Numismatic Museum curator Dai Zhiqiang's interesting article about Basic Concepts of Chinese Numismatics gives insight into this important topic.

Dr. Tseng Che-lu continues his analysis of coins from the fabulous collection of Chinese cash coins from the legendary Nai-chi Chang Collection with an article on the Yuan Dynasty Tien Chi Tung Pao 3 Cash Coins.

Stephan Dai continues his analysis of Chinese silver ingots in his article Silver Square Troughs of Canton.

There is an extremely interesting article by Cheng Bin on the background of the 1912 Sinking Unification Society medal.

Our editor Zhou Bian has an interesting article on ThreeHoled Spade which gives insight into these fabulous Chinese ancient spade rarities.

NGC's David Vagi continues his series on ancient coins in an article about the Four Aging Emperors. Spain's Salvador Ballesta's article about Spanish Eight Reals and Chinese Chopmarks gives insights into this interesting area of Chinese-Spanish numismatics. Our German correspondent Oliver Strah has submitted two reports about the World Money Fair panda.

Champion Auction will host its 25th anniversary auction in Macau in May 2021 at the Macau Sofitel Ponte 16 hotel. We will feature coins from the NC collection similar to the NC collection auction we held in Macau in 2015. Many excellent Chinese rarities and finest known coins will be in this NC auction, such as a 1916 Yuan Shi Kai flying dragon dollar with L. Giorgi signature, ex-Kann Collection, NGC MS64, extremely rare and finest known. Another highlights include 1912 Yuan Shi Kai large beard dollar in brass, ex-Kann Collection and possibly unique NGC UNC Details, 1911 Empire long whisker pattern dollar ex-Kann Collection and finest known.

To read the complete issue, see:
The Twenty-First Issue of JEAN (https://issuu.com/jeandigitala1/docs/the_twenty-first_issue_of_jean)

	NBS (coinbooks.org) Web