Warring States ĭuring the Warring states period, the first precursors of the Chinese cash coins started to appear. The trend of exclusively using the era names on currencies continued during the Qing dynasty, and all cash coins issued during this period were written in regular script.īelow is a list of obverse inscriptions that were used on Chinese cash coins organized by period and/or dynasty. Due to a naming taboo the term "Yuanbao" (元寶) was phased out from cash coin inscriptions as the founder of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had the word "Yuan" (元) in his name. Cash coins only contained the era names of the emperor during the Ming dynasty. This trend continued under the Ming dynasty. This was originally pioneered by the Southern Tang.ĭuring the Yuan dynasty, largely deprecated copper coinage was abandoned in favour of paper money. These cash coins are known as matched coins (對錢). During the Song dynasty a large number of different inscriptions was used, and several different styles of Chinese calligraphy were used, even on coins with the same inscriptions produced during the same period. This was also the first time regular script was used as all earlier cash coins exclusively used seal script. Over the years, cash coins have had many different inscriptions, and the Wu Zhu (五銖) inscription, which first appeared under the Han dynasty, became the most commonly used inscription and was often used by succeeding dynasties for 700 years until the introduction of the Kaiyuan Tongbao (開元通寳) during the Tang dynasty. Chinese cash coins from every major dynasty in Chinese history and the Republic of China.Ĭhinese cash coins were first produced during the Warring States period, and they became standardised as the Ban Liang (半兩) coinage during the Qin dynasty which followed.
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