Bronze seal with inscription “Chen Xin”, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE-8 CE)

Bronze seal with inscription “Chen Xin”, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE-8 CE)

• Image Number: K1A000408N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Western Han dynasty
• Category: Bronzes
• Function: emperor’s seal
• Material: Mineral/Metal/Bronze
• Description:
  Tortoise button, this is a mother child overprint. The outer layer of the back continuous print is a mother print, and the inner part of the first continuous print is a child print. Due to rust, it is hard to know what characters are engraved on the child print; The mother seal, “Chen Xin”, has two words in white, which are boundless. It is the same seal as the old copper 389.