User:Donald Trung/Other terms relating to cash coins

Targer article: Cash (Chinese coin). ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 08:25, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Other terms relating to cash coins

 * Mother coins (母錢), are model cash coins used in the casting process from which other cash coins were produced.


 * Ancestor coins (祖錢), are model cash coins introduced in the Qing dynasty used in the casting process from which other mother coins were produced.


 * Coin trees (錢樹), are the "tree-shaped" result of the casting process off of which the cash coins were taken to later be strung together.


 * Matched cash coins (對錢), is a term introduced during the Northern Song dynasty where cash coins with the same weight, inscription, and denomination was simultaneously cast in different scripts such as regular script and seal script while all having the same legend.


 * Zhiqian (制錢, "Standard cash coins"), a term used the Ming and Qing dynasties to refer to copper-alloy cash coins produced by the imperial mints according to standards which were fixed by the central government.


 * Jiuqian (舊錢), a term used during the Ming and Qing dynasties to refer to Song dynasty era cash coins that were still in circulation.


 * Siqian (私錢) or Sizhuqian (私鑄錢), refers to cash coins produced by private mints or forgers.


 * Yangqian (样錢, "Model coin"), also known as Beiqian (北錢, "Northern coim"), is a term used during the Ming dynasty to refer to full weight (1 qián) and fine quality which were delivered to Beijing as seigniorage revenue.


 * Fengqian (俸錢, "Stipend coin"), is a term used during the Ming dynasty to refer to second rate cash coins that had a weight of 0.9 qián and were distributed through the salaries of government officials and emoluments.


 * Shangqian (賞錢, "Tip money"), is a term used during the Ming dynasty to refer to cash coins that were small, thin, and very fragile (comparable to Sizhuqian) that were used to pay the wages of employees of the imperial government (including the mint workers themselves) and was one of the most commonly circulating types of cash coins during the Ming dynasty among the general population.


 * Daqian (大錢, "Big money"), cash coins with a nominal value of 4 wén or higher. This term was used in the Qing dynasty from the Xianfeng period onwards.


 * Kuping Qian (庫平錢), refers to a unit that was part of the official standardisation of the Chinese monetary system during the late Qing period by the imperial treasury to create a decimal system in which 1 Kuping Qian was $1/undefined$ of a Kuping tael.


 * Huaqian (花錢, "Flower coin"), charms, amulets, and talismans that often resemble cash coins.

Standard reference templates

 * August 2018.





Related expansion

 * User:Donald Trung/Red Cash coins (expansion).