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The Kaiyuan Tongbao (traditional Chinese: 開元通寶; simplified Chinese: 开元通宝; pinyin: kāiyuán tōng bǎo; lit. 'Circulating treasure from the inauguration of a new epoch'), sometimes romanised as Kai Yuan Tong Bao or using the archaic Wade-Giles spelling K'ai Yuan T'ung Pao, [3] was a Tang dynasty cash coin that was produced from 621 under the reign of Emperor Gaozu and remained ...
The lead coins circulated together with copper coins. 916: Wang Shenzhi: Kaiyuan Tongbao: 開元通寶: kāiyuán tōng bǎo: These cash coins have a large dot above on the reverse side. They are made of iron and the same coin cast in bronze is extremely rare. 922: Wang Shenzhi: Kaiyuan Tongbao: 開元通寶: kāiyuán tōng bǎo
The Autumn Lantern Series Talks further claims that the people of Xiaogan, Hunan suffered from illnesses during the beginning of the Shunzhi reign era and that they benefited from having a number of Kaiyuan Tongbao cash coins to cure them. [29] Kaiyuan Tongbao cash coins were also used in regional medicines, for example a popular traditional ...
In 1992 a hoard of 39 kilograms of Kaiyuan Tongbao (開元通寶) cash coins was discovered in the city of Chenzhou in the southern Chinese province of Hunan. [48] The number of cash coins in the hoard is approximately 8000. [48] Tang dynasty period: 17 August 1992: Shutang, Wangcheng District, Hunan province: A Kaiyuan Tongbao (開元通寶 ...
Under China's Tang dynasty, coins were inscribed Kaiyuan tongbao (開 元 通寶, "Circulating Treasure of the Beginning of an Era"), [5] [6] later abbreviated to yuanbao. The name was also applied to other non-coin forms of currency.
Under the Sui and Tang dynasties mother coins reached their definite form and were produced in moulds engraved by ancestor coins, however during this same period a casting technique called "the lost wax method" was used to cast for example Kaiyuan Tongbao cash coins, in this method mother coins made from wax rather than metal were used, these ...
Songyuan Tongbao. (Chinese: 宋元通寶; pinyin: sòng yuán tōng bǎo). Written in li script. [27] The inscription is based on the Kaiyuan Tongbao series of cash coins. [27] It has a nominal weight of 1 qian. Various dots and crescents are found on the reverse. [27] It was first cast in 960 and then until the end of Emperor Taizu's reign. [27]
A Tangguo Tongbao (唐國通寶) cash coin with its inscription written in regular script.. The coinage of the Southern Tang dynasty (Traditional Chinese: 南唐貨幣) consisted mostly of bronze cash coins while the coinages of previous dynasties still circulated in the Southern Tang most of the cash coins issued during this period were cast in relation to these being valued as a multiple of ...