Foreign residents of China who can think beck 20 or 30 years will recall the strings of cash, at that time the rmonelary unil—each having 1,000 cash [sirring one cord. and. weighing uch as seven pounds, "The writer can remember when in Shantung the Siver shoe was used instead of dol~ lars. These small cash have entirely Alsappeared from circulation now and fre old only by collectors of anti= nes.
'At Tenghsien not a few are found ancient graves that are unearthed In digging foundations for new bulla Ings. So far as is known these are juswalty' Kal Yuen cash which {rom 790-046 A.D. Tt supposed Ubese fre specially selected forthe, dead for Kal Yuen moons "anew beginning" One grave opened here rece contained 9,000" of these cash and Jsmong them about fifteen sre marked fon the reverse side showing them 0 Rave been coined from the bells of the Buddhists, "This Is quite an interesting piece of history. "Emperor Hiwel Chang In 846 A.D. became im= pressed with the Nestorian doctrine and determined to root out Buddhism, He confiscated millions of acres of Iond belonging to them and ordered the bells in the temples to be coined Into cash. These were marked so they could be recognized but to find na une is a diMeult proposition, These leash have been in graves for who knows how many years and yet the Large majority still preserve their Jeharacterist markings,
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