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CAST CHINESE COINS David Hartill
Publisher: Trafford Publishing

The inner circle has a diameter of 25mm, and is 1.5mm thick. Of particular interest is the pohon pitis or tin coin- trees of Kelantan that were produced by using moulds adapted from those used by the Chinese to cast copper coins. On International Day of Families (May 15), the bereavement and social isolation suffered by a growing number of families bereft of their only child in China casts a dark shadow over this joyful day. 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. During the 6th century BC, flat, simplified, and standardized cast bronze versions of spades appear and these constitute China's first coins. The history of coins can be a little murky, because so many coins have been found across the globe. Characters cast on the sides of the coin are high value for archaeology today. I can only advise my readers to follow these wise words as below I cast a critical eye over a small selection of Khitan-inscribed objects that I have come across on the internet. The also made wood block molds as well as clay. What else would you call a coin made under Spanish authority in Mexico that circulated in China, picking up local chop marks along the way? Such coins could be held together by a string and carried about. The Chinese mostly, but others also made molds in sand and cast coins. 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. Traditional opinion names the Chinese as the first to widely use cast coins, beginning around the 11th century B.C.. The coin is going to be 30mm in diameter. Other coin shapes appear in bronze including knives and cowrie shells. The outer ring is going to be 2.5mm wide at any given point, and 2.5mm thick.