This 500 wu shu cash coin, dated c. 7-10AD, is a modern, post Qing Dynasty replica of knife money originating from China. The obverse of the replica bears the Chinese characters Qui Dao Wu Bai meaning “Qi knife five hundred” and the reverse is...
Struck during the period of Ivan IV, this coin is of the period 1533 through 1547 AD. Ivan IV, generally known as Ivan the Terrible, was crowned Grand Prince of Moscow in 1533 AD at age three. In 1547 AD he declared himself Czar of all Russia, and...
