Spade money (traditional Chinese: 布幣; simplified Chinese: 布币; pinyin: bù bì) was an early form of coin and commodity money used during the Zhou dynasty...

the Yellow River. Although there is no doubt that the well-known spade and knife money were used as coins, it has not been demonstrated that other items...

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modern coins. They included cowrie shells, ant nose money, spade-shaped money and knife-shaped money. Before the Spring and Autumn period, during the Shang...

money. Knife money is much the same shape as the actual knives in use during the Zhou period. They appear to have evolved in parallel with the spade money...

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different types of currencies of the Zhou dynasty, including knife money and spade money. During his brief reign, Wang Mang introduced a total of four major...

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in the 6th or 5th centuries BC. From about 1000 BC, money in the form of small knives and spades made of bronze was in use in China during the Zhou dynasty...

It was valued at 1.2 yuan in the earlier (and still circulating) "small money" banknotes and was initially set equal to the Japanese yen. It maintained...

China Knife money – Zhou dynasty Ant nose coin – Chu (state) Ying Yuan – Chu (state) Sycee – Qin dynasty Ban Liang – Qin dynasty Spade money – Zhou dynasty...

government of the Qing dynasty was forced to re-introduce paper money, among the paper money it produced were the Hubu Guanpiao (戶部官票) silver notes that were...

State of Qin, coins from the spade money area have a round hole and refer to the jin and liang units. Those from the knife money area have a square hole and...

coins issued in Guangdong Province in 1900. It did not appear on paper money until later. The plural forms "cash" and "cashes" were both used. The Chinese...

(Chinese: 块; pinyin: kuài; lit. 'piece') is usually used when discussing money and "renminbi" or "yuan" are rarely heard. Similarly, Mandarin speakers...

forms called tokubetsu yubin kitte daishi ("special postage stamp cards"). Money portal Numismatics portal Taiwan portal Meiji Tsuho Tael New Taiwan Dollar...

Sichuan capital of Chengdu, China. Numismatists regard it as the first paper money in history, a development of the Chinese Song Dynasty (960–1279 CE). Early...

of coins were used in China, usually in the form of blades (knife money, spade money) or other implements, though round coins with square holes were used...

Marquessate (侯) Kingdom (王; after 344 BCE) History   • Partition of Jin 403 BCE • Conquered by Qin 225 BCE Currency spade money other ancient Chinese coinage...

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to be used as media of exchange themselves and were known as spade money and knife money. As standard circular coins were developed following the unification...

imitations of gold- or silver-colored paper are burned along with hell money as a part of Chinese ancestral veneration for Tomb Sweeping Day and the...

Jia of Zhao Historical era Warring States period • Partition of Jin 403 BC • Conquered by Qin 222 BC Currency Spade money Other ancient Chinese coinage...

George III, "Spade" issue, 1798 George III (half guinea) George III (half guinea) George III (third guinea) Commemorative 2013 £2 coin Money portal Numismatics...

蚁鼻钱; pinyin: yǐ bí qián, coin like the nose of ant), also called ant nose money, yibi cowry, Yibi coin and so on, was a small bronze coin minted by the...

Nan by Qin 256 BC  • Fall of the last Zhou holdouts 249 BC Population • 273 BC 30,000,000 • 230 BC 38,000,000 Currency Spade money Today part of China...

Chancellor   Historical era Warring States period • Partition of Jin 403 BC • Conquered by Qin 230 BC Currency spade money other ancient Chinese coinage...

reintroduction of the spade money in ten denominations. In AD 14, all these tokens were abolished, and replaced by another type of spade coin and new round...

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