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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;manymore, post: 1130194, member: 17118&quot;]Old Korean coins offer an unusually interesting insight into ancient Korean culture and the strong influence of Chinese cosmic principles, philosophy, religious beliefs, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, some of the <i>sang pyong tong bo</i> coins that Korea cast during the years 1633-1891 used several &quot;numbering&quot; systems to indicate furnace and series numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides using actual Chinese numbers, some of these coins used symbols such as &quot;dots&quot; (stars), &quot;circles&quot; (suns) and &quot;crescents&quot; (moons) in a manner similar to ancient Chinese coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even more interesting, however, was the use of characters from &quot;The Thousand Character Classic&quot;, the &quot;Five Elements&quot;, the &quot;Ten Celestial Stems&quot;, the &quot;Twelve Terrestrial Branches&quot;, the &quot;Eight Trigrams&quot;, as well as a number of other &quot;Miscellaneous Characters&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even the ancient Chinese did not utilize as many &quot;numbering&quot; systems on their coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you happen to have an interest in the history and culture of Korea as expressed through its coins, please feel welcome to visit a new page at my website on <a href="http://primaltrek.com/koreancoins.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://primaltrek.com/koreancoins.html" rel="nofollow">Korean Coins</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gary[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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