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1000 Wu Zhou Wu
| Issuer | State of Wu |
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| Year | 222-280 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Chinese |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Wu Zhou Wu ("five-zhu of Wu") was issued by the kingdom of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, when China was divided among Wei, Shu Han, and Wu following the collapse of the Han dynasty. Wu, controlling the Yangtze River basin and southeast China, maintained enough administrative stability to produce coinage, though quality and weight varied considerably across the reign of its successive rulers. The zhu standard itself was a Han inheritance that all three kingdoms nominally upheld while quietly debasing it.
Hartill notes fabric and calligraphic variations across this type that allow rough attribution within the Wu period.