The history of coins in China
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Mount Everest, which is located in Tibet, is the highest peak in the world.
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This vast continent, located from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, is the territory where coins originated. Until now, scientists from different countries are discussing which country was the first to use metal money - China or Anatolia (Asia Minor). But the undeniable fact is that Asia is their homeland. Ancient Lydia, now Turkey, produced the first coins in the VI century BC. During the reign of King Croesus, the coins depicted bulls and lions on the obverse, and rectangular stamps on the reverse. After the conquest of Lydia by Persia under King Darius, they began to mint a small gold coin of a quarter of a shekel.
The art of minting coins from Lydia spread eastward to Ancient Persia. The Greek chronicler and thinker Herodotus assumed that it was Darius who was the first king under whose rule coins were minted.
A gold coin "darik" was named after him.", equivalent to 20 silver shekels. The obverse of these coins depicted the king himself in the form of an archer, These coins had an oval shape and did not change until the fall of the Persian Empire.
China is one of the largest countries in the world community. Bronze coins in the form of tools for labor were first used by the Zhou Dynasty at about the same time as the first coins of Asia Minor. In addition to currency, "shovels" and "knives", other means of payment were in circulation during the Zhou Dynasty - "money-fish", imitation cowry shells and other bronze products used for barter. The first flat round copper discs, called cash, resembling round coins, appeared for the first time in the IV century BC.
Ancient Japan adopted the experience of Chinese coinage and in 708 AD launched bronze coins into circulation.". From that time until the tenth century, these coins were produced for each ruler with their own signs. Japan, unlike China, used gold and silver more for coinage. Coins in the XIV century are known in the form of large flat ovals - koban and oban.
Silver coins are also known - oval silver chogin, rectangular bu. bitqt