Five Emperor Coin String
$29.00 USD
Five coins struck in Qing reign patterns on braided red cord — the plainest form of an object hung in Chinese doorways for three centuries.
- Made
- Struck and strung in Zhejiang, China
- Materials
- Five brass coins, Shunzhi through Jiaqing patterns · Braided red cord with a hand-tied knot
- Size
- Coins 25 mm each, full drop about 200 mm
- Weight
- 45 g
- Ships
- From Asia. Cost by region, worked out in the cart.
Laid under a threshold, hung on a doorframe, or kept in a wallet or a till. The five coins stand for the five reigns of the Qing high period, and the set is read as a sequence rather than as five separate objects.
What it is
Five brass coins on a braided red cord. The coins carry the reign marks of Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong and Jiaqing — the five Qing emperors whose reigns run from 1644 to 1820, a stretch the tradition treats as a single unbroken period.
These are reproductions struck in the old patterns, not excavated antiques. Anyone selling you five genuine Qing coins on a cord for this price is selling you reproductions and calling them something else.
Where it is traditionally put
- Under or beside a threshold the household crosses daily
- On a doorframe, hung flat against the wood
- In a wallet, a till, or the drawer where the accounts are kept
This is an interior object, unlike the mirrors and plaques that go on the outside of a building, and there is no convention about which way it faces.
What we are not saying
We make no claim about what it does. These are five struck brass coins on a cord.
Also in the shop
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