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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 155311, member: 669&quot;]Actually, no one really does, but the consensus is that at some unknown time following&nbsp; the introduction of Chinese coins, believed to have been in 708 A.D., the Japanese began casting their own copies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although Jacobs and Vermeule (<i>Japanese Coinage</i>, 2d Ed. 1972) declare that the first extensive circulation of imported Chinese coins occurred around 637, they seem to be alone in that position - at least in English language references.</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>Munro (<i>Coins of Japan</i>, 1st Ed. 1904, 1962 Reprint) considers introduction of the Wado Kaiho aka &quot;Wado Kai-Chin&quot; - earliest of the classic &quot;12 Sen&quot; - as the initial example.</li> <li> Hitoshi Kozono (<i>Money History of Japan</i>, translated by Yong-Joon Kim and published by Alan D. Craig, 1st Ed. 1964) makes the same statement</li> <li>In his preliminary historical note, Cummings (<i>Modern Japanese Coinage</i>, 2d Ed. 1978), agrees that the Wado Kaiho has the distinction of being Japan&#039;s first circulating copper.</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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