拍品描述： 新莽契刀五百 上美品

XIN: Wang Mang， 7-23 AD， AE key money 4018。38g41， H-9。13， qi dao wu bai 40inscribed knife [value] five hundred41， lightly encrusted， VF to EF。 Wang Mang was a nephew of the Dowager Empress Wang， and during his time as her regent he usurped the throne， and founded the Xin Dynasty。 He introduced a number of currency reforms which met with varying degrees of success。 The first reform， in AD 7， retained the Wu Zhu coin， but reintroduced two versions of the knife money: the value 500 and value 5000 types which were cast from AD 7-9。