Author: Arthur Braddan CoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
An Encyclopedia of Chinese Coins: State of Ming knife coins and minor knife coins
Author: Arthur Braddan CoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
State of Ming Knife Coins and Minor Knife Coins
Author: Arthur Braddan CoolePublisher:
ISBN: 9780880000130
Category : Coins, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
An Encyclopedia of Chinese Coins: Earliest round coins of China
Author: Arthur Braddan CoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Chinese coins
Author: Early Chinese Coinage
Author: Yuquan WangAn Encyclopedia of Chinese Coins: Spade coin types of the Chou Dynasty
Author: Arthur Braddan CoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Catalogue of Chinese Coins from the VIIth Cent. B. C., to A. D. 621
Author: Terrien de LacouperiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
An Encyclopedia of Chinese Coins
Author: Arthur Braddan CoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
An Encyclopedia of Chinese Coins: Pointed spade coins of the Chou Dynasty
Author: Arthur Braddan CoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Coins of China
Author: Source WikipediaPublisher: University-Press.org
ISBN: 9781230493312
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Ancient Chinese coinage, Banliang, Chinese coinage during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, Chinese coinage in the Ming Dynasty, Chinese Gold Panda, Chinese Silver Panda, Fifth series of the renminbi, Fourth series of the renminbi, Second series of the renminbi, Sycee, Third series of the renminbi, Tong Bei. Excerpt: Chinese coins were produced continuously for around 2,500 years by casting in moulds, rather than being struck with dies as with most western coins. The earliest coinage of China was described by Sima Qian, the great historian of c. 100 BC: "With the opening of exchange between farmers, artisans, and merchants, there came into use money of tortoise shells, cowrie shells, gold, qian (coins), dao (knives), and bu (spades) This has been so from remote antiquity." While nothing is known about the use of tortoise shells as money, gold and cowries (either real shells or replicas) were used to the south of the Yellow River. Although there is no doubt that the well-known spade and knife money were used as coins, it has not been demonstrated that other items often offered by dealers as coins such as fish, halberds, and metal chimes were also used as coins. They are not found in coin hoards, and the probability is that all these are in fact funerary items. Archaeological evidence shows that the earliest use of the spade and knife money was in the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC). As in Ancient Greece, socio-economic conditions at the time were favourable to the adoption of coinage. Inscriptions and archaeological evidence show that cowrie shells were regarded as important objects of value in the Shang Dynasty (c. 1766-1154 BC). In the Zhou period, they are frequently referred to as gifts or rewards from kings and nobles to their subjects. Later imitations in bone, stone or bronze...