Crossword-Solution: KOBAN 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The Schliemann museum possesses numerous battle-axes53 of bronze, some double-bladed daggers with crooked ends, lances similar to those discovered at Koban,54 and thousands of spits, some with spherically shaped heads, others of spiral form.

When she was gone, then the smith thought: "Surely I have in gold koban(6) the sum of a thousand ryo.

Now--get you hence!" He put a gold _koban_ in the priest's hand, allowed the joyful reverence, and cut short the protests of inconvenient gratitude.

The gold mines of Sado and the silver mines of Ikuno quadrupled or quintupled their output, and Hideyoshi caused an unprecedented quantity of gold and silver coins to be struck; the former known as the Tensho koban and the Tensho oban,* and the latter as the silver bu (ichibu-giri) and the silver half-bu (nishu-gin.) *The oban was an oval plate measuring 7 inches by 4, and weighing 53 ounces.

Enamelling on bronze and iron was practised in Central Europe and at Koban in the Caucasus at an earlier date than in Italy and Egypt.