List of Chinese cash coins by inscription (your reference guide to Chinese cash coins)

Hello everyone,

Today I launched the Wikipedia article "List of Chinese cash coins by inscription" 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's and early 2000's but only covered a very small part, Robert Kokotailo's Calgary Coin & Antique Gallery was the second one to try so, however this website has been "under construction" with no content additions for around a decade now, Gary Ashkenazy'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 "mainstream" 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 "a complete catalogue of Chinese cash coins" with lots of additional information behind an army of blue links to specialised articles including the 1st half of David Hartill'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.

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 to upload them to Wikimedia Commons 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'all are willing to help.

And for everyone else this is a handy page to bookmark if you're ever interested in Chinese cash coins and want to identify them. ;-)
More information about particular varieties coming later.

 

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An admirable project! I would urge you to post this in the Ancient Coins forum as well.

 

How do I do that? By just wholly copying this or could I add this same thread so the discussion(s) would stay centralised?

 

I don’t think it’s possible to have a single thread crosslisted in two forums, but you could ask a mod. So you may just have to monitor two threads. But that’s the least of your worries given the size of your project.