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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chinese cash coins from every major dynasty in Chinese history and the Republic of China. Chinese cash coins were first produced during the Warring States period, and they became standardised as the Ban Liang (半兩) coinage during the Qin dynasty which followed. These types of Chinese coins saw their greatest development in the period between 770 and 476 BC in the so-called “Warring Period”. Instead between 771 and 250 BC was produced a coin in the shape of a “shovel chan” an ancient agricultural tool very useful which gave the coin a certain popularity.
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The most commonly encountered Chinese cash date from the Ching Dynasty and have the Manchurian 'BOO' character on the reverse left hand side. This character only occurs on Ching Dynasty cash, so it it is present on the back of your coin, click here, or on the image, to go to a page that lists the Ching Dynasty obverse types. |
The most common non-Ching Chinese cash coins are shown below. If you see one that matches your coin, just click on the image and it will take you to the listing for that type.
THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS OCCUR AT THE 12 O'CLOCK POSITION
Click on the appropriate image. If this character occurs on only one types, you will be taken to the appropriate part of our reference listing. If it occurs on more than one type, you will be shown images of the coins we have listed with that character and if you find your coin just click on the image to go to a listing of it. We apologize for not having all types currently listed, but here are about a thousand of them and it will be some time before all are available. We will try to list the most common types first.
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