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A Chinese Buddhist coin charm made during the Ming Dynasty period with a Sanskrit inscription.

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English: A Chinese Buddhist coin charm made during the Ming Dynasty period with a Sanskrit inscription.

The authoritative “Great Dictionary of China Numismatics” (中國錢幣大辭典) published a 995-page volume entitled “Chinese Charms” (壓勝錢編) in January, 2013. This charm appears on page 556. The dictionary offers two (2) opinions as to the inscription on the obverse side. For one (1), it may be Sanskrit with the meaning “a mi tuo fo” (an inscription also commonly found on Japanese numismatic charms). The other possibility is that it is the six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra “om mani padme hum“ (an ma ni ba mi hong 唵嘛呢叭咪吽).

The inscription on the reverse side is Sanskrit for “Heaven, Earth, Water, Fire” (天地水火).
Date Between the 14th (fourteenth) and 17th (seventeenth) centuries.
Source Beijing Hanhai Auction Company (北京翰海拍卖有限公司).
Author Unknown authorship during the Ming Dynasty.

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