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CAST CHINESE COINS David Hartill
Publisher: Trafford Publishing

In April, as gold bullion prices dropped in the futures market, or the “paper market” for gold, the United States Mint reported it sold 209500 ounces of gold bullion coins. After finding a spoon and then a half penny, Carrington's machine beeped a third time, and he dug seven inches down to uncover a coin that was gold in color with a Roman figure on it. For four decades, the original cast stone version of the Marine Corps Memorial statute of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima was hidden under a tarp in the backyard of its sculptor, Felix de Weldon. The obvious fear is that the economic slowdown in the Chinese economy will eventually send ripple effects through the U.S. Not a catalog, but very useful to gain a familiarity with what genuine Chinese coins look like. It was cast between 1667 and 1671 — long before the 1898 gold rush, when people from all over the world headed to Dawson City and the Klondike gold fields. Other coin shapes appear in bronze including knives and cowrie shells. Gold was first discovered as shining, yellow nuggets. Minted during the Qing Dynasty reign of Emperor Kangxi, the coin is 60 percent copper and 40 percent zinc. Unlike the ancient and medieval coins of the European and Islamic worlds which exhibited variations due to their primitive production methods of striking coins by hand, Chinese 'cash' was cast. As it turns out, the gold coloring was . Economy, as a significant number of U.S.-based companies operate in the Chinese economy. The discovery of a puzzling 340-year-old coin etched with traditional Chinese characters in Canada's Yukon territory suggests that the area was already aflurry with trading even before the Gold Rush. During the 6th century BC, flat, simplified, and standardized cast bronze versions of spades appear and these constitute China's first coins.