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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 5361461, member: 78244&quot;]In ancient Chinese theology, the heavens were round. In addition, since a circle is infinite, a circle represented an eternity in the afterlife. The “Bi” disks were typically burial objects with these ideas in mind. </p><p><br /></p><p>Cowries were seen as fertility symbols, and hence they derived their value from that. Spades and knives were essential to survival more than others objects, and they were easily commoditized for trade more than other essentials, so that’s how they derived their value as money. It seems like a logical step that round coins came from an object with a particularly special meaning. Bi disks seem to meet that criteria with bronze being more affordable and accessible than jade.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yep.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not necessarily. The round-hole coins were filed to remove the casting sprue after being broken off the tree. That transferred over to the square-hole coins. Removal of the flash was much less of a concern until the use of rims became mainstream in the Western Han Dynasty.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s an example of a Da Quan Wu Shi without the sprue nor flash filed off.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1227566[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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