so good a people hell are you going look at these coins I have here now a lot of
you will not be familiar with Chinese coins
so are these coins that just wushu coins they coins that we issued over I think
800 u period from from that 200 BC to roughly 600 feet ie Hey yes 600 AD
that's it started the Tang Dynasty and started the Tang Dynasty these coins
were replaced we fire coins that a lot of you probably more for me with this is
a I did make another video on uses Cayenne Tong Bao and this is actually
the coin of the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty and these coins replace the
wushu coins as you can see they're a bit smaller but the wushu coins are actually
the standard for at least 800 years in China there was a period Wang Ming
period in which these coins were not used and he women actually totally
stuffed up the currency system for a while in China so how can you get these
coins well I actually brought these off eBay as you can see there's a lots of
different conditions let's see if this one this one is what we got green stuff
one it's what we call bronze disease so this coin is actually slightly getting
eaten away and I'll have to deal with this but if you keep bronze disease on
this coin I eventually eat all the middle you know
just disintegrate then I have some leaf a some soil on it still
so let's have a look this one this one seems to be clear wish you okay
so this is the earlier symbol for five and that's show so that is the weights
of five shows which all these weighed it roughly about two enough grams so one
shows roughly about a half a gram there are lots of different varieties of these
coins I'm not too sure what variety these are it looks like these commented
the one collection so these are probably all the same and because all the waste
and is pretty much two and a half grams each I'd say they're one of the earlier
periods probably early before 300 AD so put those to the side so after the Tang
Dynasty you have lots of different coins issued by different emperors now these
are not attributed any of these so this is the most clear these ones are pine on
the back and there's that Tang Dynasty coin implemented default character
characters on the front which have these ever coins actually also initiated so
after the Tang Dynasty generally each Emperor issued their own coins with
their own name on it okay and you're probably wondering what this is around
so this one here is actually a knife coin so I actually have to when it's
broken which is a pity you used to be over to
buy these for at least $20 each see I'm an idiot I actually break that which I'm
really sad I'm trying to get a replacement so I have two knife coins
see one is on has a sort like square edge and this one
has a rounded one these were issued during the Eastern soul dynasty during
the warring States Period the warring States period was a period of our
intense war in China between 475 and 222 in which I think the Qin Dynasty won it
totally eliminated all you have a royal houses so this one is from the state of
Chou and this one is from the state of Yong which had two different royal
houses it's a feudal society so the king of
Zhao actually gave these royal houses lands and titles and as you can see it
has a character - this one has a character as well but I'm not sure what
it means and supposed to have a character in this side but this one can
barely read it mmm there are actually copies of these see
this side is plain there are a lot of fakes of these but a lot of them are
quite easy to tell that they face and as you can see there's a nice patina can
you see the metal in it this thing's not gonna focus so the middle is actually
quite clear you need men they are quite an interesting set to collect and also
gets paid coins hmm they look a little bit like this this one is actually not a
spade from the warring States period this is a Wang Ming coin so this is
issued probably 20 to 23 ad in this is another Wang Ming coin
so this smaller round one it's called a Hulk one and the larger Spade one is
called a hole ball and do you ratio of these you need 25 Hawk 1 to equal one
hole ball and do you recon reforms of wingman a quite interesting
he actually initiated five Connie's reforms now is pretty much wealth
confiscation and this these klain's from the last one and these coins also
circulated for about 40 years after he died you know because 23 ad it was
actually killed during a revolt by the people anybody was cut up and burn No so
I read no it could have been cut up and something else happened to it but he
actually implemented communist style reforms in which he wanted to confiscate
all the wealth of the wealthy class which he mentioned do for a while but
there is some theory say he caused widespread famine no like the Communist
era no Mao Zedong and bloody Stalin was a mess starvation and killing a lot of
people but anyway these coins are quite interesting and some of them are a lot
harder to get and actually some of them actually have a gold inlaid sorry those
are some Chinese coins throughout the period
if you don't collect Chinese coins I recommend that you actually do because
it quite an interesting set to collect not only that they're actually popular
in China and if you can get a better understanding of Chinese history this
way so I like to thank you very much for watching my video
and have an awesome coin collecting time thank you