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Coin

Description

Bronze ant-nose coin, in conventionalized form of cowrie shell: China, Zhou dynasty, 770 - 255 BC

Museum reference

A.1914.493

Collection

Coins, Medals and Tokens

Object name

Coin, Shell money

Production information

China, East Asia

Date

770 - 255 BC

Materials

Bronze

Physical description

Bronze; oval

Associations

Chou Dynasty

Exhibitions

Exploring East Asia (08 Feb 2019)
National Museum of Scotland

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Phonograph, cylinder, Pathe / box / horn / cylinder / sound box,

Cylinder type phonograph made by Pathe Freres about the year 1903 or 1904, in a portable wooden box, with aluminium horn, spare cylinder, reproducing sound box and sound box for making records

Phonograph, cylinder

Edison Gem wax cylinder phonograph, model C, by Thomas A. Edison, Orange, New Jersey, United States of America, patented 1903, in a varnised wooden box

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