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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 8290227, member: 26302&quot;]Actually, they might have put holes in them later to facilitate strings, (that is what you call them), but the Chinese actually started with holes in cash 2200 years ago to facilitate manufacture. They would cast the coins and put them on square dowel rods to hold them in place to clean the casting sprees and detritus from them en masse. 2200 years of this in this area of the world simply meant this is how these coins are &quot;always used&quot;. These were very late to Thai coinage though, Thailand had a very interesting and unique coinage system mainly based upon Indian coinage systems, not Chinese ones. This Chinese idea of a small value coin with a hole on a string did not come to Thailand until about the start of the 20th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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