After Wang Mang usurped the throne he instituted various monetary reforms, in AD 9 he retained the Wu Zhu cash coins but introduced two new types of Knife money, between AD 9 and 10 he introduced an impossibly complex … See more

In the year 993 a group of tea farmers and landless tenant farmers under the leadership if Wang Xiaobo rebelled against the Northern Song dynasty, in the year 994 after Wang Xiaobo died his brother-in-law Li Shun proclaimed himself to be the "King of the Great … See more

Kangguo Tongbao (康國通寳) on display at the National Museum of History in Taiwan.
In November 2008, October 2010, and February 2011 three … See more

Under the Ming dynasty the policy of predominantly using paper money (such as the Da Ming Baochao banknotes) which was started … See more

The cash coins of the Song dynasty are notable in the aspect that many cash coins of the same era that use the same inscription and have … See more

Under the Southern Song dynasty it became customary to add the date of issue on the reverse of the coin and as copper shortages … See more

During the Yuan dynasty, paper money such as the Jiaochao completely replaced copper coinage, during times of inflation Temple coins issued … See more