Ant nose money is a kind of copper coin of Chu State in the Warring States Period. Named after its image. The shape is a convex oval, like a shell. There is a negative on the front, and the word "Bei" is common; Some words are "Jun" and "Ai", and their meanings are not clear. Also known as grimace money and ant nose money, they are customary names after the Song Dynasty. The most unearthed places are Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, western Henan and southern Shandong.
Sankongbu is the latest currency of Zhao in the late Warring States period. Its shape is round head, shoulders and feet, and there is a hole in the head and feet of the cloth, so numerologists call it "three-hole cloth". Zhao made three-hole cloth from 244 BC to 222 BC. In 236 BC, Qin had captured half of the western part of Zhao, and then attacked the eastern part of Zhao on a large scale. Therefore, the casting time of three-hole cloth is short and the casting quantity is small, which is extremely rare today.
Yan is a country with parallel knives and cloth, but cloth coins are far less popular than Ming knives. They only circulate in a small amount in some areas to adapt to business dealings with countries that have passed through the currency distribution. Not many unearthed, often with Ming Dao * * *. It is known that the inscriptions on the cloth coins made by Yan State include Xiangping, Pingyin, Tao Yang, Yichang, Guangchang, Fenghua (Handao, Shi Bi), Youming Si Qian (Youming new product), Yiping and Yangping.
Cloth coins, also known as shovel cloth, evolved from bronze farm tools, and were shovel-shaped copper coins circulated in the Central Plains during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Shovel-shaped tools used to be the medium of folk transactions, so the earliest coins were cast in shovel shape. At first, the cloth coin kept its appearance as a tool, with a handle, which was relatively primitive and thick. Later, it gradually became lighter, thinner and smaller, and the coin body became completely flaky, which was convenient for casting and carrying.
Knife coins are the general name of various knife-shaped coins such as needle knives, sharp knives, knives, neat knives and round knives cast in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Named after its shape like a knife, knife coins made the coins at that time have not been found so far.
Lubuliang Erlu is one of the coins in circulation in Wei State during the Warring States Period. Flat head, round shoulders, square feet, round hips and flat back. The front text "Liang Erlu" is inverted. Liang, a native of Wei Yi in the Warring States Period, was located in Hejin County to Xinjiang County, Shanxi Province. "Two" is two monetary units, one as "one" and the other for comparison.
North Korea tunliu cloth coin
After Qin Banliang and Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, they decided to unify laws, weights and measures, currency and writing, abolish the old money of the six countries at the end of the Warring States period, and improve it on the basis of Qin Banliang's money in the Warring States period. Qin Banliang's round square hole coins swept the country, ending the chaotic state of different shapes and weights of money in ancient China.