After Wang Mang usurped the throne he instituted various monetary reforms, in AD 9 he retained the Wu Zhu cash … 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 the same nominal value come in multiple Chinese calligraphic fonts. Man… 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 … 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 and phenomena known as "currency famines" (錢荒) plagued the land both … 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 specimens of cash coins produced by the Western Liao were unearthed in … See more