Nice Quality 2000 Years Old Chinese Coin Huo Quan 14-22 AD Xin Dynasty

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ANCIENT CHINA 2000 Years Old Chinese Coin Huo Quan 货泉 (Wealth/Money Coin) ca. 14-22 A.D. Huo Quan 货泉 (Wealth/Money Coin) Wang Mang 9 A.D.- 23 A.D. A.D. 9-23 Xin Dynasty (Wang Mang interregnum) Weight: 3.7grams; Size:23.0mm; Material: Bronze Wang Mang , floundering around in his efforts to make a "fair and honest" financial structure, kept changing the money. The Huo Quan coins ("Q" = "ch" in Chinese Romanization) began to be counterfeited and debased almost immediately, but somewhere and for some reason big, heavy, extremely crude versions were also made. Whether these were official or private, authorized or illicit is unknown. An interesting series meant to replace the Wu Zhu. Immediately counterfeited and inflated, they got smaller and smaller. 货泉 Huo Quan (Wealth/Money Coin). In AD 14, all these tokens were abolished, and replaced by another type of spade coin and new round coins. 货布 Huo Bu (Money Spade). 货泉 Huo Quan (Wealth/Money Coin). According to Schjöth, Wang Mang wished to displace the Wu Zhu currency of the Western Han, owing, it is said, to his prejudice to the 金 jin radical in the character 铢 zhu of this inscription, which was a component part of the character Liu, the family name of the rulers of the House of Han, whose descendant Wang Mang had just dethroned. And so he introduced the Huo Quan currency. One of read more
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