Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- One (1) shun hsi yuan pao coin, Emperor Hsiao Tsung (Southern Sung Dynasty)
- China, 1174 - 1189
- Obverse Image: Orthodox script read top, right, bottom, left.
- Obverse Text: Romanization: SHUN / HSI / YUAN / PAO (Translation: Original coin of the Shun Hsi period.)
- Reverse Image: Character for fifteen, fifteenth year of the period, above the hole.
- Reverse Text: Romanization: SHIH / WU (Translation: fifteenth)
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- 1174 - 1189
- Physical Description
- copper (overall material)
- Object Name
- coin
