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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 3679037, member: 102103&quot;]I think that Asian copper coins tended to trade at closer to metal value than Western ones, so they were fairly low value.&nbsp; What, wasn&#039;t it almost 1000 Chinese cash coppers per ounce of silver?&nbsp; So to make any reasonable-sized purchase they were more convenient to string in long sets.&nbsp; The value tended to be driven down by non-government producers flooding the economy with coppers and the relative ease of counterfeiting cast coins compared to minted.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know why more modern Asian and Pacific coins have replaced the traditional square holes with round ones.&nbsp; (Square holes allow the coins to be fixed in place on a square rod to file off the leftover metal flashing from the casting process.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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