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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 4597513, member: 98035"]There's plenty of tokens and charms, but the Chinese were pretty minimalist when it comes to coins - they had the denomination (Ban Liang, Wu Zhu), ruler name, and sometimes the year or mint, or a decorative line or two, but nothing that would cross over into "religious". The coins of some emperors were retrospectively given some religious significance; I recall that the Buo Quan was worn in hopes of becoming pregnant with a son</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1138636[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The only explicitly Taoist coins I'm aware of are 19th/20th century charms.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the subject of far Eastern religious symbolism, the Japanese did mint mameita-gin featuring Daikoku, the God of Wealth</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1138643[/ATTACH] </p><p>He is shown seated on two barrels of rice (one Koku is the standard measurement for a year's rice rations, and was the fixed value of a gold koban) and holding a sack of riches and a magic hammer. The character that forms his belly is "po" for Tenpo Era (1830-1844)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1138646[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 4597513, member: 98035"]There's plenty of tokens and charms, but the Chinese were pretty minimalist when it comes to coins - they had the denomination (Ban Liang, Wu Zhu), ruler name, and sometimes the year or mint, or a decorative line or two, but nothing that would cross over into "religious". The coins of some emperors were retrospectively given some religious significance; I recall that the Buo Quan was worn in hopes of becoming pregnant with a son [ATTACH=full]1138636[/ATTACH] The only explicitly Taoist coins I'm aware of are 19th/20th century charms. On the subject of far Eastern religious symbolism, the Japanese did mint mameita-gin featuring Daikoku, the God of Wealth [ATTACH=full]1138643[/ATTACH] He is shown seated on two barrels of rice (one Koku is the standard measurement for a year's rice rations, and was the fixed value of a gold koban) and holding a sack of riches and a magic hammer. The character that forms his belly is "po" for Tenpo Era (1830-1844) [ATTACH=full]1138646[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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