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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2838193, member: 76194&quot;]One cool thing about ancient Chinese coins is all the creative proto-money they had. It ranged from cowrie shells, to bone shells like the one I posted earlier, to iron shells, to fish money, bridge money (someone posted an example in this thread of that), and ant nose money, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is Fish Money:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]670799[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then they did round coins with holes, like most are familiar with, but they also did spade coins (I posted an example of that in my first post), they also did knife coins, and other varieties of odd coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may definitely want to look at it and see if it&#039;s your cup of tea, though I suspect like most of us you&#039;ll be drawn to Roman and Greek coinage primarily due to the art on the coins. But nothing says you can&#039;t have a mini Chinese collection on the side.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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