To: Revel
Per wikipedia "
Most Chinese coins were produced with a square hole in the middle. This was used to allow collections of coins to be threaded on a square rod so that the rough edges could be filed smooth, and then threaded on strings for ease of handling."
13 posted on
11/17/2023 12:57:47 PM PST by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: z3n
Interesting. My understanding is that the rough edges were added to coins to make them harder to counterfeit.
21 posted on
11/17/2023 1:44:06 PM PST by
Revel
To: z3n
The first time I ever saw one of those coins was in the TV miniseries Noble House, based on the James Clavell novel. Pretty neat.
24 posted on
11/17/2023 2:38:26 PM PST by
telescope115
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