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2024-07-02 12:01:58

GelatoEconomist on Nostr: Cash coins - "铜币 / 方孔钱 "copper currency", "square-holed money", a type of ...

Cash coins - "铜币 / 方孔钱 "copper currency", "square-holed money", a type of coin of China and the Sinosphere, used from the 4th century BC until the 20th century AD. Featured on the logos of the Bank of China, and the China Construction Bank. Most of them were made from copper or bronze alloys, with iron, lead, and zinc coins occasionally used less often throughout Chinese history."

"Cash coins also hold a central place in feng shui (as "lucky coins") where they are associated an abundance of resources, personal wealth, money, and prosperity. They are hung on strings and round the necks of children, or over the beds of sick people."

"One method of using cash coins for "medicine" was boiling them in water and letting the patient consume that water."

"Other than that they were also used as "medical tools" particularly in the guāshā (刮痧) method, which was used against diseases like cholera; this required the healer to scrape the patient's skin with cash coins as they believed that the pathogen remained stagnant underneath the patient's skin in a process called "coining"."

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_(Chinese_coin)

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