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  2. Chinese cash (currency unit) - Wikipedia

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    Traditional style, cast 1 wén coins continued to be produced until the end of the Chinese Empire in 1911. The last coins denominated in cash were struck in the early years of the Republic of China in 1924. The term is still used today in colloquial Cantonese (mān), but written as 蚊 to represent Hong Kong dollars. [7]

  3. List of Chinese cash coins by inscription - Wikipedia

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    Chinese cash coins continued to be produced into the first year of the Republic of China until their production was completely phased out in 1912. A large number of trial coins were also cast, however these weren't ever officially issued. The following cash coins were cast during the Republic of China in 1912: [134]

  4. History of Chinese currency - Wikipedia

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    The People's Republic of China began issuing aluminum coins in December 1957, in denominations of 1, 2 and 5 fen. From 1961, China outsourced the printing of 3, 5 and 10 yuan notes to the Soviet Union. The fifth and latest editions of the currency of the People's Republic of China have been produced since 1 October 1999.

  5. Great Qing Copper Coin - Wikipedia

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    A machine-struck "Great Qing Copper Coin" (大清銅幣) cash coin of 10 wén in standard cash coins.. The Great Qing Copper Coin [1] (simplified Chinese: 大清铜币; traditional Chinese: 大清銅幣; pinyin: Dà Qīng Tóng Bì), also known as the Qing Dynasty Copper Coin or Da-Qing Tongbi, officially the Tai-Ching-Ti-Kuo Copper Coin, refers to a series of copper machine-struck coins from ...

  6. List of coin hoards in China - Wikipedia

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    The cash coins were found inside of a wooden case, that was 160 centimeters in length, 80 centimeters in width, and 30 centimeters in height. [81] The cash coins were all orderly ranked inside of the case in seven layers. [81] According to the Cultural Relics and Tourism Department of Ningqiang County the cash coins together weighed 600 ...

  7. Fifth series of the renminbi - Wikipedia

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    Coins of the first edition replace all 3 values from the previous series, namely ¥0.1, ¥0.5, and ¥1. The Emblem of the People's Republic of China of the previous series has been removed and the title of the state has been replaced by "People's Bank of China". The 1 jiao (¥0.1) coin also shrank in size.

  8. Cash (Chinese coin) - Wikipedia

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    The cash or qian was a type of coin of China and the Sinosphere, used from the 4th century BC until the 20th century AD, characterised by their round outer shape and a square center hole (Chinese: 方穿; pinyin: fāng chuān; Jyutping: fong1 cyun1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hong-chhoan).

  9. Chinese token (alternative currency) - Wikipedia

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    Qing dynasty era Chinese tokens were cast in denominations of 100 cash, 200 cash, 500 cash, and 1000 cash as well as 1 chuàn (壹串, or 100 cash coins), 2 chuàn (贰串, or 200 cash coins), and 5 chuàn (伍串, or 500 cash coins) as the contemporary definition of a "string of cash coins" in the province of Jiangsu at the time was a hundred cash coins but these tokens also had denominations ...