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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.
The Japanese Trade Dollar was a dollar coin, issued from 1875 to 1877. It was minted of 27.22 g of silver with a fineness of .900 (90%). The Yen coin had 26.96 g of silver at that time, and otherwise nearly identical in design to the trade dollar. [1] 2,736,000 coins of this type were minted, the vast majority in 1876-77. [2]
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).
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 ]
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.
Qiánpù stringing cash coins, which was a typical service offered by the qianzhuang in imperial China.. Qianzhuang (Chinese: 錢莊; Wade–Giles: ch'ien-chuang) were local independent Chinese banks in the early modern period, as distinguished from the nation-wide bank networks headquartered in Shanxi province called the "Shanxi banks" (票號, piaohao).