Early round coins Ancient Chinese coinage
an yī huà (一化) coin.
the round coin, precursor of familiar cash coin, circulated in both spade , knife money areas in zhou period, around 350 bc. apart 2 small , presumably late coins state of qin, coins spade money area have round hole , refer jin , liang units. knife money area have square hole , denominated in hua.
although discussion purposes zhou coins divided categories of knives, spades, , round coins, apparent archaeological finds of various kinds circulated together. hoard found in 1981, near hebi in north henan province, consisted of: 3,537 gong spades, 3 anyi arched foot spades, 8 liang dang lie spades, 18 liang square foot spades , 1,180 yuan round coins, contained in 3 clay jars. example find made in liaoning province in 1984, consisted of 2,280 yi hua round coins, 14 spade coins, , 120 ming knives. in 1960 in shandong, 2 yi hua round coins found 600 qi round coins , 59 qi knives. @ luoyang find made in 1976 of 116 flat handled spades of various types (xiangyuan, lin, nie, pingyang, yu, anyang, , gong), 46 anzang round coins, 1 yuan round coin, , small/sloping shoulder spades sanchuan, wu, anzang, dong zhou, feng, , anzhou.
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