Knife
Chou dynasty (400-225BC)
Issuer:
Ming
Obverse:
Schjoth 51
Reference:
Spade
Zhou Dynasty (1122-255BC)
Issuer:
Cash
Chou dynasty, ca. 255BC
Issuer:
yi-tao (One knife)
Obverse:
Schjoth 77-78
Reference:
Transitional coin from knife coinage to round cash coinage, and thus one of the first cash coins minted.
Notes:
Spade
Wang Mang Interregnum, 7-22 AD
Issuer:
Ta-pu huang-ch'ien (The great pu value thousand)
Obverse:
Spade
Wang Mang Interregnum, 7-22 AD
Issuer:
Huo Pu (The pu currency)
Obverse:
Cash
Wang Mang Interregnum, 7-22 AD
Issuer:
Huo-ch'uan
Obverse:
Schjoth 150
Reference:
Cash
Five Dynasties - Southern Han, 907-960
Issuer:
Ch'ien-heng chung-pao
Obverse:
Schjoth 436, Jen 169
Reference:
Lead
Notes:
10 Cash
1310
Date:
Yuan Dynasty (Emperor Wu Tsung)
Issuer:
Ta-yuan t'ung-pao
Obverse:
Schjoth 1099
Reference:
Mongol seal writing
Notes:
10 Cash
1621-1627
Date:
T'ien-ch'i t'ung-pao
Obverse:
Shih (10) above the hole, Yi-liang (one tael) to the right of the hole.
Reverse:
Schjoth 1223
Reference:
Candareen
1678
Date:
Ching Dynasty (rebel leader Wu San-kuei)
Issuer:
Li-yung t'ung-pao
Obverse:
yi fen (One Candareen)
Reverse:
Schjoth 1347, KM-208, Jen 643
Reference:
Seal writing
Notes:
Cash
1616-1626
Date:
Emperor Tai Tsu Kao
Issuer:
The Imperial Coin of the Heavenly Mandate
Obverse:
Schjoth 1355
Reference:
Manchu writing
Notes:
10 Cash
1851-1861
Date:
Hsien-feng Chung-pao
Obverse:
Schjoth 1599, KM C1-6a
Reference:
Board of Revenue mint. Cast iron.
Notes: