Characters Ban Liang, no rims, two lines above the hole on obverse / Blank. 28 mm, 2.75 g. Cast ca.336-221 BC. Cf. Hartill 7.4 var; The First round coins of China #- G/F #11.63. SKU T1106-45449

Early ban liangs with an inner rim were never before published. When Gratzer and myself were writing our work on Ban Liangs, no such coins were noted so they do not appear in our book. This is likely to be a local provincial issue, perhaps a variation on the Ao (œhump�) Ban Liangs,