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Map of pre-Columbian cultures Poporo Quimbaya in the Gold Museum, Bogotá Colombia Seated gold figure from the Museo de América (Museum of America). Quimbaya artifacts refer to a range of primarily ceramic and gold objects surviving from the Quimbaya civilisation, one of many pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia inhabiting the Middle Cauca River valley and southern Antioquian region of modern ...
Ying Yuan (Chinese: 郢 爰; pinyin: yǐng yuán) were stamped blocks of gold bullion. This was an early form of currency that could be considered a precursor to gold coins. [1] [self-published source] They were issued by the ancient Chinese state of Chu during the Warring States period between the 400s and late 200s BCE. [1]
Examples of jewelry worn by the higher social classes include solid gold necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, and bulla with many variations within these classes of jewelry. Some bracelets were used without clasps (solid gold snake bracelets), while others used gold pins or small gold screws to fasten the bracelet to the wrist. [5] [6]
A separate pin was attached to the head-end of the bow with a small hinge. In the second half of the 1st century AD, hinges were introduced to plate type fibulae. One or two small plaques were cast on the back of the plate, and a pin was attached to them by a small hinge. Previously, plate-type fibulae had bilateral springs attached to the back.
The only minted gold coinage of this period known was Chu gold block money (Chinese: 郢爰; pinyin: yǐng yuán), which consists of sheets of gold 3–5 mm thick, of various sizes, with inscriptions consisting of square or round stamps where there are one or two characters. They have been unearthed in various locations south of the Yellow ...
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"Piloncitos" is a collectors' term for the bead-like gold masa coins [1] [2] used during the aristocratic era of the Philippines and in the early years of Spanish foreign rule, [1] called bulawan ("gold piece") in many Philippine languages or salapi ("coin") or ginto ("gold piece") in Tagalog.
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