AHC: Chinese Imperial Seal does not get lost

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirloom_Seal_of_the_Realm

It seems it was lost by the beginning of the Ming dynasty. With a POD of whenever, make this seal survive to the present day, preferably in the hands of the Nationalists.

Huh, I always thought the traditional view was that it was lost during the Three Kingdoms when Yuan Shu fled Yangzhou after his defeat or something.

To be totally honest I don't even think the seal could have survived the end of the Jin or the Sixteen Kingdoms, considering how fluid the situation was in the North (I can't imagine how the Southern Dynasties could have gotten hold of the Seal considering that Sima Rui, founder of the Eastern Jin, wasn't anywhere near the capitals of Luoyang/Chang'an at the time).

It's probably not so difficult to create a replica of a seal and then claim it as the real thing, especially in ancient times.

Achieving the actual AHC probably just requires a lot of luck on the seal's part... like major officials fleeing the capital with the seal to some promising contender elsewhere in the country, and so on.
 
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