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CAST CHINESE COINS David Hartill
Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Cast silver coins were periodically produced but are considerably rarer. With the There is the Yang side (yáng miàn 阳面) (with four chinese characters according to reign of emperor) and the Yin side (yīn miàn 阴面) (2 characters) on every chinese coins. Traditionally, Chinese money coins were cast in copper, brass or iron. Cast of bronze during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States (chūn qiū zhàn guó 春秋战国) periods, the money's knife-like shape was derived from a certain weapon from old days. An exotic treasure cast up upon the shore, wet with sea-foam, and glinting in the fading light. We were given this by a family member (who is an avid art collector), but neither coins nor China are his area of specialty so I don't know how. Bronze money in the design of seashells. CAST CHINESE COINS by David Hartill. In the mid 1800s, the coins were made from three parts copper and 2 parts lead. Add this to your Emacs init file. CAST CHINESE COINS David Hartill Language: English Page: 473. ;(require 'i-ching) ;;; TODO: ;; - the traditional Chinese casting method based on the date of the Chinese ;; calendar would be hella coo. Better still, buy a copy of Hartill's Cast Chinese Coinswell worth about $45. The Yang side should always be used facing up. Finding Also see `i-ching-coin-caster' as an example. But to my juvenile eyes, it was nothing short of pirate's gold! Qing Dynasty: Shunzhi and Kangxi to Qianlong — A reprint in two volumes of an old Japanese catalog that will be useful to Qing specialists, as a supplement to Hartill's Cast Chinese Coins. It was a late summer evening with the sun hanging low in the sky, when I happened upon an old Chinese “I Ching” coin half-submerged in the sand, right on the tide line. Later that night, the coin was hidden from sight in an impressive fortification I had made of Lego.