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Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio to Present Chinese Coins from the Famed Charles E. Tanant Collection

By Stack’s Bowers
Santa Ana, CA – Formed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Charles E. Tanant Collection contained some of the finest preserved Chinese rarities to ever enter the marketplace. While serving as an official in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, Tanant received many of the pieces in his collection as gifts from colleagues during the late Empire and into the early Republic

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