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Charm Token - Taoist Bagua Amulet
| Location | Taiwan |
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| Composition | White metal |
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| Obverse description | Central device features a Yin-Yang (Taiji) symbol in relief, surrounded by the eight Bagua trigrams (Eight Diagrams) arranged around the circumference, each paired with its corresponding Chinese character. A suspension hole is present at the top of the octagonal flan. |
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| Obverse lettering | ☰乾 ☱兌 ☷坤 ☲離 ☴巽 ☳震 ☶艮 ☵坎 |
| Reverse description | Central circular device bearing a large Chinese character in relief, surrounded by eight radiating sections each containing Chinese characters forming an apotropaic inscription. A suspension hole is present at the top of the octagonal flan. |
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