Shui scripts on these copper coins include the Han characters Da Zhong, and pictograph of a human figure pulling a buffalo and harrow, a kind of cultivating tool. Da Zhong represents the Song Dynasty emperor, suggesting the coins were used roughly in 1008-1016 AD. The Buffalo and the harrow both represent fortune in Shui scripts.

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