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China: Taiwan. Bi Pao Military Ration "Sumi Calligraphy Brushes" Dollar ND (1853) AU Details (Chopmarked) NGC,...
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Excessively Rare Bi Pao Military Ration Dollar
Taiwan. Bi Pao Military Ration "Sumi Calligraphy Brushes" Dollar
ND (1853) AU Details (Chopmarked) NGC, Tainan mint(?), KM-C25-5
(Rare; 1862), L&M-325, Kann-4 (1862), WS-1002, Wenchao-182
(rarity 3 stars). With "Ku" (Treasury) stamp. Issued by General Tai
Chou-chung. An excessively rare type within this already
challenging military ration series, and one which we've been able
to locate only two other examples of appearing at auction in the
past decade. Produced during an uprising in Fung Shan
contemporaneous with the Taiping Rebellion for military
expenditures, surprisingly little seems to be recorded for the
history of this Bi Pao type; while Wenchao suggests a similar
rarity between this and the Ju-I "Lotus" Dollars, and Kann had four
in his collection, both Lin and Ma and the Illustrated Catalogue
of Chinese Gold & Silver Coins record a much higher value for
this type, a fact support by its absence from the Chang Foundation
collection. Both Kann and the Standard Catalog of World
Coins suggest a date around 1862, though more recent Chinese
scholarship places alongside the emissions of Li Shek and Lin Kung.
While these Taiwanese emissions come universally chopmarked, the
offering loses little of its underlying detail to this process,
with a distinctive increase in the sharpness of the devices as one
moves outwards from the centers. The only other sales record we can
draw the potential bidder's attention to is an XF Details piece
which brought $45,000 in April 2012.
極珍罕的筆寶軍餉
1853年台灣「筆寶軍餉新細明體」六八銀餅。AU Details (Chopmarked) NGC。台南造幣廠(?)，珍稀度三星。帶「庫」字戳記，極為罕見的錢幣，在過去的十年中，只有兩枚曾在拍賣中出現。令人驚訝的是，似乎沒有太多關於此幣的歷史記載，董文超先生《中國歷代金銀貨幣通覽》提出此與「蓮花圖」錢幣間的稀有度相似，耿愛德（Kann）則列有4種款式，林國明與馬德和先生著《中國金銀幣圖錄》都記錄了這種類型的更高價值。耿愛德和《世界硬幣標準目錄》都提出此幣應是源於咸豐三年的起義事件：
當年四月，李石、林恭於鳳山起事震驚全台灣，事起後軍需糧餉暴漲，需款孔急，台灣府於台南開鑄"如意"、"筆寶"銀餅以應急需，六月林恭告敗，遂遭處死，民變事平，所鑄銀餅隨即停鑄，流用時間甚短。
此枚儘管大部分都因驗色而印上戳記，但底部細節仍然清晰。曾出現的另一枚XF Details 在2012年4月拍賣以$ 45,000美元成交。
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