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East Asia

The East Asian Collection is one of the most important in Europe with more than 20,000 coins. It includes approximately 15,000 Chinese coins – through the entire history of China from 600 BC to the 21th century, and 3,000 Korean coins – from the Koryŏ period to Korea's first modern milled coinage (1882). Vietnamese coins and Chinese amulets are also well represented. The Japanese coin collection of 1,600 coins has been documented by Nobuhisa Furuta, Shin’ichi Sakuraki and Lyce Jankowski.

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119226)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong in cap and scarf, left; red background; plum branch with seven flowers blooming below

Reverse

毛主席万岁, inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119227)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; red sunray striations; rocks below with a lighthouse on right

Reverse

忠 / 毛主席万岁, Loyalty character, centre; inscription below

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119228)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

枪杆子里面出政权, portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; red background; red sunray striations; hammer and sickle motif at regular intervals around rim; poetic inscription below bust; flags below; small rifle at base?

Reverse

LONG LIVE CHAIRMAN MAO 中国纺织品进出口总公司, inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119229)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong (military collar), left; red sunray striations; hammer and sickle below bust; seven sunflowers below

Reverse

毛主席万岁 / 海军潜校红联总, calligraphic inscription; inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119230)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; red patterned sunray striations

Reverse

忠 / 七机部赠, inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119232)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong (military collar), left; gold background within star; red rim with striations

Reverse

毛主席万岁 / 三造革委会, inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119234)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

忠, portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; red sunray striations; loyalty character; three sunflowers

Reverse

毛主席万岁, calligraphic inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119235)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; red background; battleship in rolling waves below bust

Reverse

北供 / 毛主席万岁 / 北京 / 十, calligraphic inscription; inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119236)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

一定要根治海河, portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong (military collar), left; red sunray striations; bridge below bust; rolling waves; calligraphic inscription in waves

Reverse

忠 / 敬祝毛主席万岁无疆 / 天津市根治海河指挥部, loyalty character; inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119237)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left in red circle; red sunray striations; Great Hall of the People below

Reverse

忠 / 敬祝毛主席万岁无疆, Loyalty character; inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119238)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; golden stippled background; red sunray striations with nine stars decreasing in size from bottom; continuous stars around golden rim; hammer sickle

Reverse

毛主席万岁 / 纺织工业部, calligraphic inscription; inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119239)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; red sunray striations; ?? below; inscription?

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119240)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; red sunray striations

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119241)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; red sunray striations; ?? below; inscription?

Reverse

祝毛主席万寿无疆 / 北京, Star in centre; inscription below

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119242)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; red sunray striations; revolutionary sites, right to left: Jinggangshan (flag at summit), Gate of Heavenly Peace, pagoda and Yanhe bridge at Yan’an; seven sunflowers below

Reverse

毛主席万万岁!, calligraphic inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119243)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

毛泽东选集, portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong (military collar), left; red circular stippled background; red border with flags all round; two aeroplanes taking off; volume of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong (with inscribed title); golden rim; clouds below

Reverse

3733, inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119244)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; red sunray striations

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119246)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

世界革命人民心中的红太阳, portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; red background in the form of a globe; inscription

Reverse

毛主席万岁 / 中国上海, inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119247)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; broad red sunray striations

Reverse

毛主席万岁!, Star, centre; inscription

Chinese Mao badge (HCR119248)

Period

Chinese

Person

Mao Zedong 毛泽东, 1893 - 1976

Dating

Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Obverse

portrait bust of Chairman Mao Zedong, left; red sunray striations; two characters below bust, from Shajiabang, Sister Aqing and Guo Jianguang, in a marshy landscape

Reverse

革命现代京剧-沙家浜 / 广州？军, Yan’an landscape, star in sky with pagoda and Yanhe bridge, centre; inscription below