One (1) huang sung t'ung pao coin, Emperor Jen Tsung (Northern Sung Dynasty)
China, 1038 - 1040
Obverse Image: Seal script read top, bottom, right, left.
Obverse Text: Romanization: HUANG / SUNG / T'UNG / PAO (Translation: The Imperial Coinage of Sung.)
Reverse Image: N/A
Reverse Text: N/A
General Information: The new year title was Pao Yuan but a repetition in the cash legend of the character Pao was bad form, thus Huang Sung T'ung Pao was chosen for the coinage.
One (1) solidus (histamenon nomisma) coin, Nicephorus III
Byzantine Empire, 1071 - 1078
Obverse Image: Christ seated facing front on a backless throne, wearing a nimbus cross, pallium, and colobium; he raises his right hand in benediction and holds book of Gospels in his left hand, on either side of nimbus are IC - XC, all surrounded by a double border.
Obverse Text: IC / XC
Reverse Image: Nicephorus standing facing front on footstool wearing a beard, crown and loros, holding labarum with X on shaft and a globus cruciger; all surrounded by a double border.
Obverse Text: Romanization: HUANG / SUNG / T'UNG / PAO (Translation: The Imperial Coinage of Sung.)
Reverse Image: N/A
Reverse Text: N/A
General Information: The new year title was Pao Yuan but a repetition in the cash legend of the character Pao was bad form, thus Huang Sung T'ung Pao was chosen for the coinage.
One (1) huang sung t'ung pao coin, Emperor Jen Tsung (Northern Sung Dynasty)
China, 1038 - 1040
Obverse Image: Seal script read top, bottom, right, left.
Obverse Text: Romanization: HUANG / SUNG / T'UNG / PAO (Translation: The Imperial Coinage of Sung.)
Reverse Image: N/A
Reverse Text: N/A
General Information: The new year title was Pao Yuan but a repetition in the cash legend of the character Pao was bad form, thus Huang Sung T'ung Pao was chosen for the coinage.
Obverse Text: Romanization: HUANG / SUNG / T'UNG / PAO (Translation: The Imperial Coinage of Sung.)
Reverse Image: N/A
Reverse Text: N/A
General Information: The new year title was Pao Yuan but a repetition in the cash legend of the character Pao was bad form, thus Huang Sung T'ung Pao was chosen for the coinage.