Chinese Cash
Chinese Cash

Author: David Jen

Publisher: Krause Publications

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780873418591

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At long last there is a collector's guide that provides a comprehensive overview of the complex, but fascinating world of Chinese cash coins. Covering more than 3,000 years of numismatic history, this long-awaited volume lists, illustrates and values in multiple condition grades a variety of monetary forms issued in Imperial China. Author David Jen is one of the leading experts in Chinese currency and is well respected in both the United States and Asia. His new work is by far the most complete volume available on the topic, offering history and production details for thousands of issues. In addition, the book includes many newly discovered varieties not listed in any other reference source.

Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Coins (gold, Silver, Nickel, and Aluminum): Chinese Republican silver, nickel and aluminum coins
Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Coins (gold, Silver, Nickel, and Aluminum): Chinese Republican silver, nickel and aluminum coins

Author: Eduard Kann

Publisher: Ishi Press

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780923891190

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Eduard Kann (1880-1962) was more than just a coin collector. He was top adviser the Chinese Government, who ran the Chinese monetary system for decades. Kann came to China in 1901 and managed to get out of China just as Mao took over in 1949. He then lived in Hong Kong and Los Angeles. This catalog is a classic work essentially of his own coin collection, including coins he collected while working as a banker and as an official of the Chinese Government in Shanghai. Some of these coins are extremely rare and a few may not even exist any more, because the Chinese Government ordered all coins to be surrendered to the government to be melted down and made into bullion. Thus, any Chinese person who held on to these coins, did so in secret. Kann, as a non-Chinese, was one of the few that was allowed to keep his coins. When, after his death, his coin collection was sold in several auctions, they fetched millions of dollars. The New York Times for May 23, 1971, page D37, reports: Among the items listed to go on the block are 1200 lots from the finest collection of Chinese coins - the collection of Eduard Kann, a banker who lived in China for 47 years. During his long numismatic career, Mr. Kann compiled the Catalog of Chinese Coins which was published in 1953. This high quality reprint of the original 1953 book is based on one of the few copies of the original work still known to exist.

China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937
China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937

Author: Austin Dean

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2020-11-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1501752421

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In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using silver. Yet China had no unified national currency; there was not one monetary standard but many. Silver coins circulated alongside chunks of silver and every transaction became an "encounter of wits." China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937 focuses on how officials, policy makers, bankers, merchants, academics, and journalists in China and around the world answered a simple question: how should China change its monetary system? Far from a narrow, technical issue, Chinese monetary reform is a dramatic story full of political revolutions, economic depressions, chance, and contingency. As different governments in China attempted to create a unified monetary standard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the United States, England, and Japan tried to shape the direction of Chinese monetary reform for their own benefit. Austin Dean argues convincingly that the Silver Era in world history ended owing to the interaction of imperial competition in East Asia and the state-building projects of different governments in China. When the Nationalist government of China went off the silver standard in 1935, it marked a key moment not just in Chinese history but in world history.

Catalogue of Chinese Coins
Catalogue of Chinese Coins

Author: Terrien De Lacouperie

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 9781528464963

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Excerpt from Catalogue of Chinese Coins: From the Viith Cent; B. C., To A. D. 621; Including the Series in the British Museum This volume of the catalogue of Coins describes the earlier coinage of China from the British Museum Collection and other sources. The Museum specimens re distinguished by the numbers being in thick type and by not being included in rackets. The metal of each coin is stated, and its size or average size in inches md its weight or. Average weight in grains. The classification is under forms for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.