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There are generally three scripts used on Song dynasty era cash coins which include Regular script, Seal script, and Running hand script/Grass script. The reading order of Song dynasty era cash coins exist in top-bottom-right-left and top-right-bottom-left orders.
English: Coin (called Cash or Wen) from the rebel ruler Koxinga who was based in his Kingdom of Tungning which ruled the island of Taiwan. The coin reads "Yong Li Tong Bao" in seal script and was minted from 1651 to 1662 by Japanese casters in Nagasaki to support Koxinga's resistance against the Qing.
Coins of the Yuan dynasty. The Yuan dynasty was a Mongol-ruled Chinese dynasty which existed from 1271 to 1368. After the conquest of the Western Xia, Western Liao, and Jin dynasties they allowed for the continuation of locally minted copper currency, as well as allowing for the continued use of previously created and older forms of currency (from previous Chinese dynasties), while they ...
Written in seal and regular script. There are both small and large iron coins. Huang Song tong bao (Chinese: 皇宋通寶; pinyin: huáng sòng tōng bǎo) (1039–1054) use seal and regular script, and have many variations. They are made of iron and have two forms with either small or large characters.
Bronze plate for printing the Xingding era paper currency. Jin dynasty, 2nd year if the Xingding era (1218). Although the Jin dynasty had started issuing paper Jiaochao (交 鈔) in 1154, they didn't produce coins until the year 1158, prior to that coins from the preceding Liao and Song dynasties continued to circulate within Jurchen territory, [2] as well as a continuing large inflow of coins ...
The seal script "Yuan" (元) character of the Guangding Yuanbao cash coins tends to have more "twists and turns" than the more "dignified" version of the "Yuan" on the seal script version of the Qianyou Yuanbao, [8] furthermore, the "Yuan" character inscribed on the bottom of the Guangding Yuanbao touches the rim of the coin, which the "Yuan ...
Nine-fold seal script [a] [1] [2] or nine-fold script, [b] [3], also called jiudiezhuan [1] [2] or jiudiewen [3], nine-bend script, [3] or translated as layered script [5] is a highly stylised form of Chinese calligraphy derived from small seal script, using convoluted winding strokes aligned to horizontal and vertical directions, folded back and forth to fill the available space.
Nine-Fold Seal Script charms (Traditional Chinese: 九疊文錢; Simplified Chinese: 九叠文钱; Pinyin: jiǔ dié wén qián) are Chinese numismatic charms with inscriptions in nine-fold seal script, a style of seal script that was in use from the Song dynasty until the Qing dynasty. Examples from the Song dynasty are rare.