gxseries Posted September 2, 2017 Report Share Posted September 2, 2017 Was tidying up my collection and this is one set that I got a few years back. I did show it once before but wanted to do a formal digital coin album set. A brief summary of the Chinese poem coins is that the coins were cast around 1660 - 1680s by 20 different mints in different provinces. The coins were rearranged to form poetry. As far as I understand, there does not seem to be any meaning to it but may be rearranged by phonetic. The way I have designed is that I wanted to include both the pinyin and English pronunciation as well as traditional and simplified Chinese characters. It kinda looks cluttered but to put so much information in - it was not straight forward. As of why I wanted to do so, I honestly struggled to read different references with different annotations. Therefore this has to be done. Enough said and enjoy the view! http://gxseries.com/ct/poem1_small.jpg http://gxseries.com/ct/poem2_small.jpg Please feel free to post your pictures as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 Very nice! I've never gotten around to getting the Tai and the Nan. I should do that one of these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Cool fact about the coins! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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