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CAST CHINESE COINS David Hartill
Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Enchant Coin Sword (Taoist Sorcery). To say, the Five Shu coins are not recorded as invariably weighing five Shu. The final test for a successful casting is to strike one of them: the struck bell will make no noise while the other bell will ring. Since November 2011, she has been working with the Asian numismatic collections at Manchester Museum . Smith introduces readers to the history of Chinese copper coins from the Zhou dynasty to Tang dynasty. The study of Chinese copper coinage is one of . Qin's background is in Chinese archaeology, and her main interest is Chinese coins and their collectors. 187 (Eastern Han) weighed four Shu; another was eight Shu and yet another was three Shu. Several illustrations of different types of coins are included. 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.