Script Style Reference

Below is every Hanzi chopmark recorded in the collection, ranked by how often it appears. For each one I've lined up the character in every script we have on file, so you can see how the same mark shifts from the modern Hanzi form, back through ancient seal script, and across the running, grass, and clerical calligraphy hands.

This is meant as a visual reference. If you're staring at a chopmark on a coin and it doesn't look like the modern character, one of these older or brushier forms may be closer to what the engraver actually cut. Where a script isn't available for a character, it's simply left out of that row.