新仓乡Xincang Township

不明，'安'（原文作宗字）字蚁鼻钱首次发现地，出土15枚；该处南街生产队安河村1985年至1994年间陆续两处出土蚁鼻钱：一为1985年至今河埂滩零散出土约2000余枚（9品种，其中'安'字贝15枚及另一新品种为首次发现）；二为1985年8月26日发现的窖藏（陶罐盛装，重25公斤，约10000余枚，其中9700枚上交，基本完好者9600枚，4品种，以'巽'字贝为主占99%以上）；两处合计出土蚁鼻钱超过11000枚，含10个品种（部分品种币文为生僻楚系文字，OCR/字库无法确认精确字形，仅倪运熙、吕长礼二文均确认'安'字贝品种及数量一致）；南街生产队位于新仓乡古遗址上，推测为楚国晚期铸钱、储钱遗址；中国钱币1994年第3期总46期。 另据中国文物地图集安徽分册'安河铜贝窖藏'条（312-G4）：新仓乡安河村街南丰乐河岸边，战国，1985年秋发现，窖形制不详，出土楚国铜贝约50斤，近万枚——与本条所述1985年8月26日窖藏（重25公斤）应为同一事件的不同来源记载。

Context unknown. The first findspot for ant-nose coins inscribed "An" (the source text writes the character as "Zong"), 15 pieces recovered. Two separate finds of ant-nose coins were made here in the Nanjie production team, Anhe Village, between 1985 and 1994: the first was a scatter of roughly 2,000-odd coins picked up along the Hegengtan riverbank from 1985 onward (9 varieties, including 15 coins inscribed "An" and another new variety, both first-time discoveries); the second was a hoard found on 26 August 1985 (contained in a pottery jar, weighing 25 kg, roughly 10,000-odd coins, of which 9,700 were handed over and 9,600 were essentially intact, in 4 varieties, over 99% of them inscribed "Xun"). Together the two findspots yielded more than 11,000 ant-nose coins in 10 varieties (some varieties bear rare Chu-script characters that could not be confirmed precisely by OCR or font lookup; only Ni Yunxi's and Lü Changli's articles agree on both the "An"-inscribed variety and its count). The Nanjie production team sits atop an ancient site in Xincang Township, thought to be a late-Chu coin-casting and coin-storage site. China Numismatics, 1994 no. 3, whole no. 46. The same site is also recorded under the "Anhe Bronze-Cowrie Hoard" entry (312-G4) in the Atlas of Chinese Cultural Relics, Anhui Volume: on the bank of the Fengle River south of Anhe Village street, Xincang Township; Warring States period; discovered in autumn 1985; the form of the storage pit is not recorded; about 50 jin (roughly 10,000 pieces) of Chu bronze cowrie coins were recovered — this should be a differently sourced record of the same event as the 25-kg hoard of 26 August 1985 described in this entry.