CHINA: AE charm (17.12g), CCH-1790, 44mm, Lei Ling "Daoist curse charm", lei zou sha gui jiang jing / zhan yao chu xie yong bao / shen qing feng / tai shang lao jun ji ji zhi ling which translates as "God of Thunder (Lei) clear out and kill the ghosts and send down purity / Behead the demons / Expel the evil and keep us eternally safe / Let this command from Lao Zi be executed quickly " // at right is the Daoist god Zhenwu, above the center hole are the eight trigrams or bagua, in the middle of the bagua is the yinyang symbol also known as the taiji, auspicious symbol at left, VF. Likely cast in the late Qing dynasty.
