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XX. The Chinese Numerals and their Notational Systems. Part II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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With this Part we attack the series of the Normal Numerals, together with those characters which have been singled out, as homophones of more elaborate structure, to serve as Accountants' or Bankers' alternative forms, less liable to fraudulent alteration.
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page 745 note 1 See the plate in Mr. Ramsden's paper on “The Ancient Coins of Lin Tzŭ”, in the Numismatic Chronicle, ser. iv, vol. xv.Google Scholar
page 745 note 2 See e.g. on No. 45, plate iii, Documents Chinois découverts par Aurel Stein.
page 746 note 1 The Old Numerals, etc., p. 21, n. 55.Google Scholar
page 753 note 1 See Bretschneider, 's Botanicon Sinicum, vol. ii, pp. 87–8.Google Scholar
page 755 note 1 I have copied these four forms from the original shapes in the work named, 2nd ed., because they are printed slightly differently by Lo.
page 758 note 1 See Chavannes, , ubi supra, Nos. 71 and 93, plates 4 and 5.Google Scholar
page 762 note 1 See his Yin Hsü Shu Gh'i K'ao Shih, p. 16.Google Scholar
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