Sheridan Bowman Michael Cowell Joe Cribb

Abstract

The primary aim of this project was to provide an analytical survey of dated copper-based Chinese cast metalwork. The potential of coinage for this purpose is obvious and, in the case of China, made particularly opportune by the long tradition of manufacture of the
copper-alloy cash coin. For almost two millennia the Chinese used this copper-based unit as virtually their only official coinage for day-to-day use. For much of this time the style and method of production of the cash remained essentially unchanged. Unlike the majority of Western coinages it was cast in its final form, instead of being struck, and this practice continued right up to the early 20th century.

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Two thousand years of coinage in China: An analytical survey. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 23(1), 25-30. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/625
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Two thousand years of coinage in China: An analytical survey. (2022). Historical Metallurgy, 23(1), 25-30. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/625