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| Location | People`s Republic of China |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a central square hole surrounded by four large Chinese characters in high relief arranged around the aperture, reading 招財進寶 (meaning 'attract wealth and treasure'), set within a granulated field and a raised outer rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | 招財進寶 |
| Reverse description | The reverse displays the eight Bagua trigrams of the I Ching arranged in an octagonal pattern around the central square hole, each trigram accompanied by its corresponding Chinese name character in the field. The eight trigrams represented are 乾 (Heaven), 兌 (Lake), 離 (Fire), 震 (Thunder), 巽 (Wind), 坎 (Water), 艮 (Mountain), and 坤 (Earth), all rendered in relief against a granulated field within a raised rim. |
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