Kucha coinage was produced in the Kingdom of Kucha, a Buddhist, Tocharian-speaking state located in the Tarim Basin (present-day Kucha County, Xinjiang), during the 1st millennium CE.
There are five known types of Kucha cash coins, all of them based on Chinese Wu Zhu. These coins are usually characterized by their diminutive size and thin shape. They are generally believed to have been produced between the years 265 and 589.
Kuchacoinage was produced in the Kingdom of Kucha, a Buddhist, Tocharian-speaking state located in the Tarim Basin (present-day Kucha County, Xinjiang)...
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lasted until the 1830s. In 1840, purely Tibetan coinage was struck under Tibetan authority, and this coinage continued being made until 1954, with only two...
During the Tang dynasty, a standard bi-metallic system of silver and copper coinage was codified with 10 silver coins equal to 1,000 copper cash coins. Paper...
the Straits Settlements, as well as the silver dollars and fractional coinage of the neighbouring province of Canton. In 1894, the pataca was introduced...
coins while the yuán depicted the Great Wall of China. In 1991, a new coinage was introduced, consisting of an aluminium ¥0.1, brass ¥0.5 and nickel-clad...
compared to earlier Qing dynasty coinage because of this reason. Under the Daoguang Emperor a new mint was established at Kucha in the Xinjiang province with...
tortoise and others are known. The tael was still used in Qing dynasty coinage as the basis of the silver currency and sycee remained in use until the...
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been the policy of the British government to introduce sterling silver coinage to all of its colonies, and to this end, in 1845 the Spanish or Mexican...
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corresponding to the Greek stater. The standardization of currency with this round coinage was part of a broader plan to unify weights and measures during the Qin...
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The Han dynasty coinage (traditional Chinese: 漢朝貨幣; simplified Chinese: 汉朝货币; pinyin: Hàncháo Huòbì) system refers to the currency system of the Han dynasty...
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The kingdom of Qiuzi (near modern Kucha) produced coins similar to the Chinese "Wu Zhu" pieces (see Kuchacoinage). In the Chu valley in Central Asia...
Japan, and South-East Asia, where they often formed the dominant form of coinage. The Mongol-founded Yuan dynasty (Chinese: 元, 1271–1368) also attempted...
oldest known mint. meaning that it is possible that the earliest known coinage was invented by the Chinese and not the Lydians as is commonly believed...
Chinese coinage during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods includes some of the earliest coins produced in the world. However, they were...
depends on a good political economy, which was found in the good old Wu Zhu coinage, and so reissued the Wu Zhu cash coins. From the year 523 onwards the government...
Warring States period, and they became standardised as the Ban Liang (半兩) coinage during the Qin dynasty which followed. Over the years, cash coins have...