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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TrungQuocDon, post: 3181664, member: 97349&quot;]Hello everyone,</p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday I launched the Wikipedia article &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_cash_coins_by_inscription" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_cash_coins_by_inscription" rel="nofollow">List of Chinese cash coins by inscription</a>&quot; which is an attempt to list every Chinese cash coin from the Zhou Dynasty until the Republic of China in 1912. This list is not the first online attempt to try and list them all, Charm.ru tried doing so during the late 1990&#039;s and early 2000&#039;s but only covered a very small part, Robert Kokotailo&#039;s Calgary Coin &amp; Antique Gallery was the second one to try so, however this website has been &quot;under construction&quot; with no content additions for around a decade now, Gary Ashkenazy&#039;s Primaltrek tried but missed quite a lot of types (although I do have to credit it for having a great coverage of Wu Zhu cash coins), and finally Numista had their own take at it but they mostly just covered all &quot;mainstream&quot; types and left out all rebels, most of the Jurchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol issues and most early Chinese cash coins. This is basically the first online attempt to actually be &quot;a complete catalogue of Chinese cash coins&quot; with lots of additional information behind an army of blue links to specialised articles including the 1st half of David Hartill&#039;s best selling book which he donated to Wikipedia in 2013. However one thing any reader might notice is that there are many images missing.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I am also asking any collectors for help, how so? Well, if any collector here as any missing Chinese cash coin I am asking them <a href="https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard" rel="nofollow">to upload them to Wikimedia Commons</a> and add them to the list, of course most missing types will be of the more rarer varieties but as I am asking this for coin collectors interested in Chinese coins I hope that y&#039;all are willing to help.</p><p><br /></p><p>And for everyone else this is a handy page to bookmark if you&#039;re ever interested in Chinese cash coins and want to identify them. ;-)</p><p>More information about particular varieties coming later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fun fact: In Feng Shui, Chinese fortune telling, and Traditional Chinese medicine every separate inscription and individual cash coin has separate properties, for example in traditional Chinese medicine the &quot;Zhouyuan Tongbao&quot; issued by the Later Tang Dynasty is said to prevent miscarriages (although if you actually believe that you need a neurologist to examine your head <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />), yeah it&#039;s all dumb superstition but it&#039;s interesting to learn how these cash coins are used in Chinese culture, which is also why I wrote a huge article on &quot;Chinese numismatic charms&quot; (as many Western collectors seem to think either that cash coins are &quot;Oriental lucky coins&quot;/&quot;Chinese lucky coins&quot; or that charms and cash coins are one and the same).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Zhou_Yuan_Tong_Bao_-_Dr._Luke_Roberts.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>A &quot;Zhouyuan Tongbao&quot; for reference purposes, this image comes from the collection of Dr. Luke Shepherd Roberts from the University of Southern California at Santa Barbara.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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