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These cash coins have the character Fu (Chinese: 福; pinyin: fú) on the reverse in reference to Fuzhou. They are made of lead. Wang Shenzhi: Yonglong Tongbao: 永隆通寶: yǒnglóng tōng bǎo: These iron cash coins have the character Min (Chinese: 閩; pinyin: mǐn) on the reverse and comes from the Fujian region. There is a crescent below.
The Auto Dollar (simplified Chinese: 贵州汽车币; traditional Chinese: 貴州汽車幣; pinyin: Guìzhōu qìchē bì; lit. 'Guizhou automobile coin', also known as the Motorcar Dollar or Kweichow Auto Dollar) is a silver one yuan coin minted by Chinese warlord Zhou Xicheng [] in 1928 to commemorate the construction of roadways in Guizhou province.
Chinese historian Peng Xinwei stated that in the year 1900 traditional cast copper-alloy cash coins only made up 17.78% of the total Chinese currency stock, privately-produced banknotes made up only 3%, and foreign trade dollars circulating in China (which mostly included the silver Mexican peso) made up 25% of the total Chinese currency stock ...
In 1889, Chinese currency began to be denominated in the yuan and its subdivisions. The cash or wén was retained in this system as 1 ⁄ 1000 yuan. 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 ...
Old Chinese Currency used in 1920–23. This currency was also used in Hunza state.. The use of shell money is attested to in the Chinese writing system.The traditional characters for 'goods' (貨), 'buy/sell' (買/賣), and 'monger' (販), in addition to various other words relating to 'exchange', all contain the radical 貝, which is the pictograph for shell (simplified to 贝).
Republic of China 1929 S. Y. S Globe Dollar Silver Pattern, NGC MS65. This was the first Chinese coin to feature a map or globe in its design. Only a handful are known to exist, and each is different.
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 ...
Yuan Shikai dollars are relatively inexpensive in comparison to other Chinese silver coins due to their very large mintage, leading them to be popular with coin collectors. [34] The coins are nicknamed "fatman dollars" by collectors, from a mistranslation of their Chinese nickname, "big head dollars" ( 袁大头 ; Yuán dàtóu ). [ 35 ]