User:Donald Trung/Letters to Lars Bo Christensen
Lars Bo Christensen (http://chinesecoins.lyq.dk/index.html) is a Danish collector of Chinese cash coins, he has the single largest Western collection of Chinese cash coins available for viewing online. In my pursuit of creating a full (chronological) list 📃 of every Chinese cash coin by inscription no website on the internet would be as valuable as the Ancient Chinese Coins (Chinesecoins.lyq.dk) website, in fact my sheer virtue of the amount of images available it would render any other upload “a mere token” compared to the volume of images of Chinese cash coins Lars Bo Christensen has on his website, a notable exception is that he doesn't have any Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, and Chinese talismans on his website like literally every other website that even just mentions Chinese cash coins, although this is something that I did respect until very recently about Lars Bo Christensen. Note that Lars Bo Christensen's Ancient Chinese Coins often links to Gary Ashkenazy’s Primaltrek / Primal Trek and actually links the “Ancient Chinese Coinage” article on the English Wikipedia as the second most important “literature” link 🔗 (Quote: “David Hartill wrote most or all of the Wikipedia article on Ancient Chinese Coinage. It is excellent and searchable!”) second 🥈 only to David Hartill's Cast Chinese Coins book itself of which almost half was donated into that article (unfortunately excluding images). 
Just to put in perspective how valuable the Lars Bo Christensen Collection would be to Wikimedia Commons, getting an OTRS ticket 🎟 from Lars Bo Christensen for his collection of online images would not only make asking others to donate images of their Chinese cash coins obsolete, it would essentially allow us to create an almost full and very detailed catalogue 📇 of Chinese cash coins from his images alone, no other online collection comes close. By comparison getting Gary Ashkenazy's Primaltrek / Primal Trek would only scratch the surface of all Chinese numismatic charms (something which David Hartill claims is upwards of 5000 (five-thousand) different pieces and variants, meant of which “aren’t even in the books 📚”), and although the John Ferguson Collection is quite humongous, it’s still many pieces short. The Lars Bo Christensen Collection also has many Khitan, Tangut, Jurchen, and Mongol cash coins most Western (European language) catalogues didn’t even list 📃 before David Hartill's Cast Chinese Coins. In fact as Lars Bo Christensen's Ancient Chinese Coins (chinesecoins.lyq.dk) seems to list only very limited information outside of the manufacture of cash coins being largely depend on both Gary Ashkenazy's Primaltrek / Primal Trek and the “Ancient Chinese coinage” article on the English Wikipedia authored by David Hartill. In fact with the Lars Bo Christensen Collection Wikimedia wouldn’t just be the paramount best website on Chinese numismatics, but taking on simply a fraction of it would become a herculean task making even many prior written works uninformative by comparison. In fact many large 🤪 publications on coins don’t have as much images as the Lars Bo Christensen Collection. Of course Lars Bo Christensen doesn’t own every variant of every Chinese cash coin however I have yet to run 🏃♀️ into as much variations as I have on Lars Bo Christensen's Ancient Chinese Coins (chinesecoins.lyq.dk).
Other than Chinese cash coins Lars Bo Christensen's Ancient Chinese Coins (chinesecoins.lyq.dk) hosts a number of other Asian numismatic objects such as Bamboo tallies 🎍, Japanese, Korean, Ryukyuan, and Vietnamese cash coins. Although these images would all in fact be very welcome to Wikimedia Commons, they are not a definitive amount such as the images Chinese cash coins on Lars Bo Christensen's Ancient Chinese Coins (chinesecoins.lyq.dk), but they do still include some rather rare variants that I have long wished to integrate into several Wikipedia articles.
Listing every Chinese cash coin on Wikipedia (24 D. 07 M. 2018 A.)
[edit]"Dear Mr. Lars Bo Christensen,
I am a voluntary contributor to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, I have personally written and expanded a lot of articles about cash coins but unfortunately often didn't have the images to illustrate them, I am now planning on making a full list of every Chinese cash coin by inscription and variant and want to ask you if I may use your images to illustrate these. Currently only a fraction of Chinese cash coins are represented on Wikipedia with images to illustrate them to the readers (such as collectors), I simply don’t want to present the readers half information by giving them all inscriptions but not showing the (often subtle) calligraphic distinctions.
Yours faithfully,
Trung Quoc Don
Sent 📩 from my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL with Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile 📱."
G* --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:06, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
Error:Due to some error this message didn't deliver, I will try using the info@chinesecoins.lyq.dk e-mail 📧 address instead.
- Listing every Chinese cash coin on Wikipedia (24 D. 07 M. 2018 A.)
The same message was re-sent to a different e-mail 📧 address listed on the website.
"Dear Mr. Lars Bo Christensen,
I am a voluntary contributor to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, I have personally written and expanded a lot of articles about cash coins but unfortunately often didn't have the images to illustrate them, I am now planning on making a full list of every Chinese cash coin by inscription and variant and want to ask you if I may use your images to illustrate these. Currently only a fraction of Chinese cash coins are represented on Wikipedia with images to illustrate them to the readers (such as collectors), I simply don’t want to present the readers half information by giving them all inscriptions but not showing the (often subtle) calligraphic distinctions.
Yours faithfully,
Trung Quoc Don
Sent 📩 from my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL with Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile 📱."
- --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:15, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
- Listing every Chinese cash coin on Wikipedia (29 D. 08 M. 2018 A.)
The same message was re-sent to a different e-mail 📧 address listed on the website. This e-mail address was provided by Scott Semans who has donated a large amount of images to Wikimedia Commons.
"Dear Mr. Lars Bo Christensen,
I am a voluntary contributor to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, I have personally written and expanded a lot of articles about cash coins but unfortunately often didn't have the images to illustrate them, I am now planning on making a full list of every Chinese cash coin by inscription and variant and want to ask you if I may use your images to illustrate these. Currently only a fraction of Chinese cash coins are represented on Wikipedia with images to illustrate them to the readers (such as collectors), I simply don’t want to present the readers half information by giving them all inscriptions but not showing the (often subtle) calligraphic distinctions.
Yours faithfully,
Trung Quoc Don
Sent 📩 from my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL with Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile 📱."
- --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:58, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
Consulted method of communication
[edit]G* larsbo@email.dk. 
No longer in use, apparently.
Original publication 📤
[edit]Sent 📩 from my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL with Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile 📱. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:06, 24 July 2018 (UTC)