Object numberB587
TitleChinese cash coins
Description10 Chinese cash coins, tied together with twine and a metal bar. This type of coin, cast in brass with a square hole at the centre, was the standard type coin of China for thousands of years. They were copied in Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Chinese merchants took them throughout Asia and to Australia during the gold rush era.
Production placeChina
Production period19th century
Object namecoin, cash, Chinese
Materialbrass & twine
Dimensions
- width: 25.00 mm
height: 10.00 mm
length: 85.00 mm