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tea brick (shaped as ancient Chinese coin)
A tea brick shaped in the form of an ancient Chinese coin, known as fang kong qian (fig.). While the embossed Chinese character fu (富) over the square hole means ‘abundant’ and ‘wealthy’, the character an (安) on the left means ‘peace’ and ‘healthy’.
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