so hello fellow clink like this hey you going today my name is Glenn and today I
am back with another coin video and today I have some training his coins and
these coins would have to be the longest circulated Queens I'm in history you
know we could say the Mariota tala is probably the longest circulator no not
really it's probably the longest minted
European coin but it's not the longest minted coin ever that would have to read
these ones these ones are called wushu so let me see if I find a good one
yeah okay so here we have two characters on them
on this side with two characters on the other side we have nothing so depending
on a period I'm on designs sometimes you can get something on the other side
sometimes she can get ever lettering depending on the period but these coins
were used for at least 700 years with this design of course they would change
over that period like this coin here and this coin here obviously you can see
differences this one has a lot thicker rim it's actually a big coin so it's
probably heavier and days could ever be minted at two different places they
could one could be government issue one could be a private issue and yes
China at certain periods of time allowed the citizens to actually mint their own
coins because their base metal like if someone I had a mine and could actually
get the Medal well then the government all allowed and produced coins obviously
they would have had to pay somehow and or disagreed two different periods in
Chinese history so maybe this one could be an earlier coin this one could be a
later or maybe every way around but the character on here is this is the Chinese
character for five or mmm in Cantonese and this
shoo which is actually a value one shoe is equivalent to half a gram so in
theory this coin could actually weigh about two and a half grams but in
reality depending on the time period the place is minted obviously these two
coins weigh differently now having actually weighed these actually this
one's about two and half grams and this one's a bit heavier so it actually
depending on also the metal content as well like these ones are probably mainly
iron or brass I'm not too sure you need to do a mid to a metal analysis of these
coins but I'm not gonna do them so obviously these coins have been dug up
and ten years ago these coins were all over a Bay but now they're pretty scarce
there may be the ones you get a fake but these are pretty legitimate they haven't
actually been cleaned that well which is alright I don't mind so most of them
pretty much this design here and the fake ones he's not that common
so maybe the ones with all this dirt probably come from me
same excavation site yeah these coins were issued in a 118 BC they replaced
the main coin called the bang Lang which it was actually a coin that initially is
supposed to weigh 24 shoe so at least ten times DS oh no not ten times five
times DS and but in reality they weighed about well sure which is eight grams at
the time I'm not using the point five grams here so in 182 BC to the bang then
weighed eight shoe which is a reduction in 175 a way for shoe is actually is
smaller than these poins and they were replaced in one a
team of these coins because well it just become chaotic everyone started
mentoring our own coins that were allowed to at that time and the quality
in design actually became well less control but the government had to accept
1000 coins it doesn't matter what weight they were as payment for their services
and at this time China actually developed into a truly cash economy you
know silver and gold they didn't really use as coinage they used that as bullion
and that occurred up into bet the 1800s winner
silver and gold coins were actually imported from they mainly use Mexican
pesos or eight reales but they always chopped so they stamped
them to check their medal quality and they didn't accept it at face value they
usually accepted it at whatever the silver content was only weight
but these coins well these are pretty much accepted probably not as individual
coins but as bunches so that's what I have a keyhole in them you can put them
together like this and so I've got a piece of string so you actually get them
like this you Fred string through it if I can
let's go this way there you go and then you tie it up so they actually would
have done a lot more coins in this they probably would have put like probably at
least a hundred or something together and this is how they actually used to
spend coins so and that's a date also stored coins so or some prices now I
haven't got the dates for these but these are around about
200 so milling probably what is probably a mega liter of millet so the probably a
kilogram millet cause signifies cash they need 75 coins they actually bought
it I hectoliter of rice that's been processed would be 140 cash so I Hector
later it's actually quite a lot of rice to pour one mill probably like one or
two cash of rice would have done the labor per month would have got paid 150
cash so 150 coins per month you could divide there into Oh probably 35 40
coins per week so that will make it out
how much per day probably seven to eight coins per day so how much you've got
here I got 2 4 6 8 9 so maybe that's a day's wages that can actually buy you
quite a lot of food in the history of hand which is a Chinese history book
they had a production of 220 million coins per year and these are actually
cast coins they're actually not minted coins like well this coin here actually
no like this rupee from India from the Mughal Empire this is actually a punched
hand stamp coin I can't remember see when you get older get a little bit
about Simon's so this is actually instead has a two dice and it's actually
they use a hammer to hammer the image on this one they have a a mold actually
pour molten metal into the mold and they didn't take the coins out and because
they joined together they have to break them off
sometimes you can see where the actual coin what's in the mold because I
actually have to fall it down but because these coins are so old it's
actually hard to see on these ones and it's got a lot of stuff on it so it's a
bit hard to see let me see if I can find it mmm yeah it's pretty hard to see cuz
you got all this in crustacean and that's what you have to be worried about
when you actually get coins so here so just there just here looks like that's
where the metal was actually joined to the other coins it actually looked a bit
like a lake now you can't really see and did I tell you how much these lights are
these way of it two two and half grams okay so I can't remember if I told you
one shoes one shoe is half a gram so far shoes is two and a half grams but as I
said before the weight depends on a lot of different factors and there's
actually quite a lot of different variations in these coins it's probably
more variations than any other coin because these 700 year reign so the only
interrupt was using these coins was when Wang mang actually ruled China from 7 BC
to 23 ad he was and he actually introduced a lot of monetary reforms I
think about five which totally destroyed the economy it's like a communist type
system early form communism he tried to confiscate everyone's wealth that's why
i issued em and well these coins were they were used and i were there's
evidence that they'll used for about 20 years after he was overthrown
so there's actually still minted and then wushu while it was eventually made
illegal to use though to be news all the way through that
period and these were replaced in the tank period but a more modern coin dad
actually well I don't have the 10 coin on me well I must be more coining up in
some way it was replaced by coins with essentially four characters on him to
say this one is Tong Bao nice on the top and bottom is the Emperor's reign and
these are pretty much a standard these are all different periods like this is a
Vietnam lately it's about 400 years old so these are about 2,000 years old
roughly between 1300 and a 1/2 of 400 and um 2200 so it's a bit hard to tell
another ladylee a lot of these I do not have the Empress I've been actually
research so maybe I should actually try and find them so those are my wish you
coins over a few probably about 20 or 30 and I just think they're awesome I think
these are an exciting area to collect Chinese coins toilet records ayah as I
don't really like to collect Australian coins because I think new modern coins
yeah they're okay but I like older coins something with history something that's
awesome anyway I like to say thank you very much for watching my video I do
sell coins on eBay I'd like to support my channel and also
get something in return and have awesome coin collecting time people collecting
coins is awesome have a good one bye bye