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china cash coins

silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,758 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I have two of these in my collection

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1854 China 10 cash coin
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https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipO2RcEP4xMgNIaYT2JmwfYQrss55WyKa0g0IAEx

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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Any more info about the 10 cash? Size? How you came across it?
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  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,758 ✭✭✭✭✭
    no info on size but picked this up 4 yrs ago at a coin shop here in town

    https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipO2RcEP4xMgNIaYT2JmwfYQrss55WyKa0g0IAEx

  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,040 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have two of these in my collection

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    1854 China 10 cash coin
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    why do they call them cash coins? 😊
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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,368 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>why do they call them cash coins? >>


    The Chinese name for them is simply "qian" (coin or money), or "fang kong qian" (square hole coin)."Cash" is the English name for them. It derives from the South Indian word "kasu" for a small copper coin.

    "Cash" meaning "a pile of money" derives from the Latin "capsa", meaning "box".
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