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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 ...
Kaiyuan Tongbao cash coins were also used in regional medicines, for example a popular traditional prescription in the Shaanxi province during the Qing dynasty period claimed that to remove something referred to as "dead muscle" (死肌, Sǐ jī) stated that physician should combine 2 Kaiyuan Tongbao cash coins with 2 walnut kernels, and 1 or 2 ...
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: These cash coins have the character Min (Chinese: 閩; pinyin: mǐn) on the reverse.
Tongbao (通寳), literally "circulating treasure", [b] is an inscription first introduced with the Kaiyuan Tongbao (開元通寳) series of cash coins during the Tang dynasty period in 621 and was used as the most common inscription on cash coins for more than 1300 years and occupies a dominant position in the monetary history of China.
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.
After unification of China under the Qin dynasty in 221 BC the Ban Liang (半兩) cash coin became the standard coinage, under the Han dynasty the Wu Zhu (五銖) cash coins became the main currency of China until they were replaced with the Kaiyuan Tongbao (開元通寳) during the Tang dynasty, after which a large number of inscriptions were ...
China is the first country in the world to issue lead coins, though when the first lead coins were produced remains controversial as it is commonly believed that the first lead coins in the world were the small Kaiyuan Tongbao (開元通寳) cash coins produced during the reign of King Wang Shenzhi of the Min Kingdom in 916. [2]
The design and calligraphy of the Zhouyuan Tongbao very closely resembles those of the Kaiyuan Tongbao series of cash coins produced during the Tang dynasty period. [6] It is a typical bronze Xiaoping Qian (小平錢) in size and weight, and its inscription is written using clerical script. [6]