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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3186984, member: 76086&quot;]Not very.&nbsp; At least not really.&nbsp; Hmm.&nbsp; Confusing?&nbsp; Single cash coins of the period are pretty standard at just 25mm (some period prior, say Tang, are pretty standard at 24mm, but other contemporary are 26mm).&nbsp; The weights really mean nothing.&nbsp; Most are not out of the norm for each denomination (one or two cash).&nbsp; True, some coins can be double the weight of average, and I have had countless of them, but they do not relate to value (then or now).&nbsp; Some argue for the concept of a Three Cash denomination, but while I subscribed to such a concept years ago after decades of handling them they dont seem to exist. Some are just larger and heavier, or heavier and smaller, and all the variations.&nbsp; I&#039;m being simplistic as there are many distinct variations, especially with Wang Mang and his reforms which were at least 1,000 years before his time with a fiduciary system.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But to sum up at the time size was more important than weight.&nbsp; I have no doubt that large transactions would have been weighed, but for smaller day to day business the size what was mattered most.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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