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Paying with coins
2. Paying with coins at a Sichuan market place in Han-China
Three pairs of buyers and sellers on a market place, situated near a town gate (the building to the right with a drum pending in the upper part) and an open kitchen-diner (left). Tile from a tomb in Sichuan, erected in the Han period (202 BCE -220 CE)

Source: Käte Finsterbusch, Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen, Wiesbaden 1966-1971; 2 Vols., no. 160.
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