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CAST CHINESE COINS David Hartill
Publisher: Trafford Publishing

The People's Bank of China has launched (31st August) a set of commemorative coins which focus on ancient Chinese bronze artifacts and ornaments in an effort to further the promotion of Chinese bronze culture and to highlight the essence of Chinese bronze art. In 621 AD, Emperor Gao Zu of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) cast a new coin known as the kai yuan tong bao (开元通宝). A THOUSAND YEARS OF BOHEMIAN OFFICIAL COINAGE 929-1929.pdf Size:17,918 KB; CAST CHINESE COINS - Hartill.pdf Size:77,980 KB; Catalogo das moedas de Mocambique.pdf Size:8,360 KB; Catalogue of Greek coins in BM - PHOENICIA.pdf Size:44,149 KB; CATALOGUE OF GREEK COINS IN THE B.M. Including books about Portugal Dinhiero, Chinese coins, Ottoman empire book guide and Medieval coin making. Unlike the ancient and medieval coins of the European and Islamic worlds which exhibited variations due to their primitive production methods of striking coins by hand, Chinese 'cash' was cast. The outer ring is going to be 2.5mm wide at any given point, and 2.5mm thick. However there are no characters to indicate the coin's value. The coin is going to be 30mm in diameter. Regarding why Chinese cash coins have square holes, the two responses you published are correct. I'm researching my first Chinese coine and believe I've found out that one side indicates Hsien-Feng T'ung-Pao and the other indicates Department of Public Works Mint and Coin. From this time on, Chinese cash coins were no longer named according to their weight. The history of coins can be a little murky, because so many coins have been found across the globe. Traditional opinion names the Chinese as the first to widely use cast coins, beginning around the 11th century B.C.. For 2000 years, from the reign of Qin Shi Huang (Shih Huang-Ti, 221-207 BC), Chinese coins consisted of cast bronzes or brass, with a central square hole. Qing Dynasty: Shunzhi and Kangxi to Qianlong — A reprint in two volumes of an old Japanese catalog that will be useful to Qing specialists, as a supplement to Hartill's Cast Chinese Coins. While the images are not quite good enough to be absolutely certain, the coin appears to be "struck" as opposed to "cast". It is believed that this is the first in a The Xia Dynasty is believed to be the originator of bronze culture in China, and the casting & artistic standards were in its infancy. The inner circle has a diameter of 25mm, and is 1.5mm thick.