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Due to a naming taboo the term "Yuanbao" (元寶) was phased out from cash coin inscriptions as the founder of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had the word "Yuan" (元) in his name. The trend of exclusively using the era names on currencies continued during the Qing dynasty , and all cash coins issued during this period were written in regular ...
The name was also applied to other non-coin forms of currency. Yuanbao was spelt mambo [7] [8] and yambu [9] [10] in the 19th-century English-language literature on Xinjiang and the trade between Xinjiang and British India. A yuanbao was also called a dìng (Chinese: 鋌; pinyin: dìng; Wade–Giles: ting) or "silver dìng" (銀鋌; yíndìng ...
The seal script "Yuan" (元) character of the Guangding Yuanbao cash coins tends to have more "twists and turns" than the more "dignified" version of the "Yuan" on the seal script version of the Qianyou Yuanbao, [8] furthermore, the "Yuan" character inscribed on the bottom of the Guangding Yuanbao touches the rim of the coin, which the "Yuan ...
Sycee, also known as Yuanbao, a type of silver or gold ingot currency used in China until the 20th century Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Yuanbao .
This is the known instance of a Qianyou Yuanbao cash coin with an inscription written in seal script. [37] The seal script Qianyou Yuanbao cash coin has a diameter of 25.4 millimeters, a thickness of 1.5 millimeters, and weighs of 3.3 grams. [37] Western Xia dynasty period: 2012: Hebei: 98 specimens of knife money and 161 specimens of spade money.
Coins of the Yuan dynasty. The Yuan dynasty was a Mongol-ruled Chinese dynasty which existed from 1271 to 1368. After the conquest of the Western Xia, Western Liao, and Jin dynasties they allowed for the continuation of locally minted copper currency, as well as allowing for the continued use of previously created and older forms of currency (from previous Chinese dynasties), while they ...
A Sichuanese man carrying 13,500 cash coins.. A string of cash coins (Traditional Chinese: 貫, 索, 緡, 繦, 鏹, [a] 吊, 串, 弔, 錢貫, 貫錢, [b] 貫文, 吊文, or 串文; French: Ligature de sapèques) refers to a historical Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ryukyuan, and Vietnamese currency unit that was used as a superunit of the Chinese cash, Japanese mon, Korean mun, Ryukyuan mon, and ...
The Southern Song would suffer from what had been called "currency famines" or Qian Huang (錢 荒), during the mid-13th century, this was because the production of bronze coinage had fallen to merely 2 to 3% of what it had been under the Northern Song, meanwhile the relative value of silver compared to bronze had steadily increased leading to ...