Talk:Qing dynasty coinage/Archive 1

Gold 🥇 Qing coins.


The above image is from Wikimedia Commons 📸 and if I search 🔍 Bing or Bing News I will find a lot of results displaying images or selling Guangxu era gold coins, but so far I haven’t been able to find any “non-spamy” articles that I can use, nor do I own any books about non-Cash Chinese coinage so I am not (currently) able to write a paragraph entitled “Gold coinage”, if anyone owns any books on the subject or knows a reliable source than please use it to improve this article. Thank you in advance. 🙏🏻

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--1.55.177.78 (talk) 12:15, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Qing Dynasty coins being dug up. ⚱💴
It's not uncommon for news 📰 reports to report on Qing Dynasty coins being dug up, such as 500 kg. of it in the attached source (The Telegraph). The Ancient Chinese coinage articles lists a few of these events, I'm not sure if content such of that would improve the article or not, especially since the Qing dynasty only ended around a century ago. 🤔 --1.55.183.244 (talk) 06:50, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Images in the Wikitable.
The reason I included the images in the Wikitable is so readers could have an idea of how these coins look(ed) like, I preferred to only include obverses as mint marks are already discussed in great detail below but adding these images could be of great encyclopedic value, and would be way more education than text alone. 🤓 --125.212.228.11 (talk) 11:22, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Seems fine to me. Sunshine Alexi (talk) 13:37, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Why the Guāng Xù Yuán Bǎo (光緒元寶) coin is omitted from the list of Qing Dynasty "Cash coins". 📝
One of my main “reference lists” is the reference a reference list for 5.000 years of Chinese coinage (though in reality this has only been around 2, and a ½ thousand years), and they name a coin on their list called the Guāng Xù Yuán Bǎo (光緒元寶), now does this coin exist? Well, yes, and no. My original intent of writing both this article, and the Southern Song dynasty coinage article was to “make this reference useless” (as in “it already exists on Wikipedia, so there’s no need to venture out”) and omitting information 🛈 would seem contrary to that goal 🥅, however various more reliable, and academic sources 🎓 make no such claim, and David Hartill (who only covers CAST Chinese cash coins, and is considered “the best guide for anyone who is starting to learn 🏫 about Chinese coinages”, well people can lay that claim aside since I had written these “X Dynasty coinage” articles with a bit more background than his book(s) 📚, HOWEVER he still has illustrations and until someone uploads them to Wikimedia Commons he’d still got us “beat” on those grounds, but I’m getting off topic here 😅 ) specifically ends it with the “heavy currency” series, another thing to look out for is that the Numista article (or “reference list”) makes no claim of any denominations, and usually rarely extends beyond calligraphy only with the Qing including (a rather limited number of) mint marks. Now I did say that the Guāng Xù Yuán Bǎo (光緒元寶) does in fact exist, and yes it's even a “Cash” coin. Here we must differentiate between the 3 (well technically 4 if you’d count Mace (unit) as “Chinese cash”) different articles on Wikipedia called “Chinese cash”, the most easily confusing 2 are Cash (Chinese coin) Vs. Chinese cash (currency unit), note that “Cash” as a unit will continue to be used quite long in the Republican period long after the cast round coins with square-holes we also call “Cash” stop 🤚🏻 circulating. In fact this website details that pretty well, which does not take away that there is in fact a “Cash” coin with the inscription “Guāng Xù Yuán Bǎo (光緒元寶)” so I specified the list to mean “Cash”, the coin and not “Cash” the currency unit. Guāng Xù Yuán Bǎo (光緒元寶) coins are still very welcome in the “copper coinage” paragraphs, however they should not be added to the list unless someone can find a reliable source that mentions the existence of a round coin with a square-hole that is escribed with Guāng Xù Yuán Bǎo (光緒元寶). And please don’t take all sources at their face value, WP:OR is not permitted, but neither is adding “hoax” coins (well, it DOES exist but not as THAT type of “Cash” coin where the list if made for), I hope that if you read this and still decide on adding the coin to the list that you name a respected source other than the above. Though the “5.000 years” reference list from Numista is a handy list and I’ve used it half a dozen times (if not more) here on Wikipedia, it does not name any other sources and expects to be taken at its face value, it hasn't been updated since 2013, and no comments have been made requesting aby corrections. I primarily used another list that is directly based on David Hartill’s works 📖 (yeah, “so someone else already did the work for me”), and generally speaking David Hartill is a very well respected numismatic source. I’m not saying that Sir David Hartill is perfect either, it's just that he’s more of a reliable source to use in this instance than the “5.000 years” reference list on Numista.

Sent from my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL with Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile 📱. --58.187.171.100 (talk) 11:38, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: The same type of coin is also a 大清錢, these inscriptions should be counted separate in a different series. --Donald Trung (talk) 11:40, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Possible split
It might be wise to create a separate article on the History of foreign coinage in China covering the silver coinage from other countries that circulated in China under Manchu rule. --Donald Trung (talk) 11:13, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Quality of article
It would be worth considering nominating the article for A or GA status.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 20:11, 16 December 2018 (UTC)


 * , well, I'm not allowed to nominate this article as by the restrictions placed by, but if you feel that this article deserves this status you can nominate it. Honestly I don't really care about these "community" labels as they add nothing to the content of the article and the readers don't notice the difference anyhow as they're just looking for information. --Donald Trung (talk) 20:24, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Removed image
, just curious, but why did you remove this image? --Donald Trung (talk) 08:34, 18 December 2018 (UTC)


 * It's too high and very fuzzy, I think the second picture of Abkai fulingga han jiha is enough for the section.--Baomi (talk) 08:44, 18 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Understandable, the characters on the image aren't readily readable without much effort, however it would be wise to write such things in an edit summary the next time so it doesn't just appear as if you randomly remove an image without a reason. Simply saying 'one image is sufficient" or something would've cleared up what you were thinking as others can't read your mind. --Donald Trung (talk) 08:56, 18 December 2018 (UTC)




 * I do have to admit that the images from the illustration look vague but ome thing the illustration did provide was an example of Traditional Chinese characters being used on the Later Jin Dynasty cash coins rather than just Manchu script, of course the characters weren't that readable but I would propose if a better quality image depicting all Later Jin Dynasty cash coins together that we should replace the image of only one coin with that of more coins, but you were right that this image is a bit too blurry. --Donald Trung (talk) 09:35, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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 * Coin. Qing Dynasty. Jiaqing Tongbao. Bao Yuan. obv.jpg